AUKUS Defence Procurement Deal
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined the US President Joe Biden, and the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in San Diego this week to announce the signing of a trilateral security pact under which the latter two countries will assist Australia in acquiring and building nuclear-powered submarines.
The plans included the production of up to five of ...
Australian Government Responds to COVID-19 Procurement Review
Many governments around the world have faced pressure regarding their procurement of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, so it is encouraging to see The Australian Government releasing its response to the Halton review into procurement of Covid 19 vaccine and treatment.
In June 2022, a review was called into Covid purchasing and procurement by the Australian Minister for ...
EU Joint Ammunition Procurement
EU ministers will meet today in Stockholm to decide whether to jointly procure ammunition to aid Ukraine and replenish domestic stockpiles. EU defence ministers will informally discuss plans to speed up the supply of ammunition to Ukraine, which is seeking more ammunition to fight Russia’s invasion. NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and EU’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry ...
Canadian Government Announces Rail Procurement Process
This week, the Canadian Government announced a major step in the procurement process for their High Frequency Rail project: the launch of the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
The purpose of the RFQ is to identify and qualify up to three top candidates who will be invited to participate in the Request for Proposals (RFP) process, anticipated to ...
Policy Proposal: Analysts In Place
Data is critical to the functioning of government. Policies and services live or die on the quality of data. Successes and failures can often be shaped by the decisions teams make at the outset of a project, especially regarding data.
Data integrity, good data design and proper policies to govern data are too vital to ignore. That’s ...
Hallucination As A Service
I asked Chat-GPT to find me some academic papers that highlight the usefulness of combining two different machine learning techniques. I hoped that it might be able to point me to some new insights for some research we’re doing into document clustering. The results were surprising:
These look credible enough, but none of these papers exists. The ...
Future Trends in Government Procurement
Over the years, government procurement has undergone significant changes, with new trends emerging that are reshaping the way governments buy goods and services.
One of the most notable trends in government procurement is the shift towards digital procurement. Governments are increasingly leveraging technology to streamline the procurement process, reduce costs, and improve transparency. Online procurement portals, e-auctions, ...
Making Your Own Export Platform?
If you are building your own export platform, sourcing, organising and analysing your data has its challenges. Here are some of the most common challenges we see:
Finding The Right Data.
Bid teams' time is valuable, and poor information can make the difference between a useful product or not. It's common to have questions around potential sources of ...
Tackling Modern Slavery in Supply Chains – Guidance
On 26 March 2020, the UK became the first country to publish a Government Modern Slavery Statement, setting out the steps government was taking to identify and prevent modern slavery in its own supply chains.
In November 2021, Ministerial departments published their own annual modern slavery statements, setting out the steps they’ve taken to address modern slavery ...
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The Benefits of Data Tech 101
Government procurement, the process by which government entities purchase goods, services and works from private businesses, is being revolutionised by the integration of data technology. The increase in data analytics and digital platforms is making government procurement around the world progressively more efficient, transparent and cost-effective. The implementation of data technology in government procurement is beginning ...
Does Procurement Need Blockchain?
Blockchain is fundamentally a database, but rather than a database where one item is allowed to replace another, each change to the data is added as new record that is then chained to other records using a complex algorithm.
These records are then distributed across multiple instances, so the records aren't held in a central database but ...
Mixing Politics & Procurement.
The need for administrations to act at pace is often at odds with the processes and procedures needed for good procurement.
If an administration wants to send a man to the moon, vaccinate a population or just build a bridge across a river, they don't want to have to draft a specification, engage the market, redraft the ...
Improve Your Exporting With Government Data
Government procurement data can be a valuable resource for export agencies looking to expand their business and identify new opportunities in foreign markets. By understanding the types of goods and services that various government agencies are purchasing, export agencies can gain insight into the needs and preferences of different countries and tailor their offerings accordingly.
One way ...
Waiting For A Tsunami Of Text
In a world where text can be generated by an algorithm for negligible costs, we have to rethink how we value the written word. In procurement, the effort required to create written texts has become a proxy for validity. That is changing, in a world where Chat-GTP is the dunce in the room, ie. 2025, there ...