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1. How can we get data scientists excited about public procurement, and everyone excited about data? 2. Public procurement challenges require strict and swift approach 3. CCS to launch £50m digital inclusion framework to boost access to government services 4. New handout about Contracts Finder 5. Brazil levels playing field
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The answer is: not all and not all of the time irrespective of the clear legal commands to do so. OpenOpps looked into the practice for contracts published on ContractsFinder and this is what they found out: “” As I suspected, local Government is a lot worse: “” As the data analysis
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1. Why is so much ICT procurement not appearing on ContractsFinder? SpendMatters reports on some research carried out by Innopsis on this topic. The smoking gun - which I agree with - is framework agreements. As argued here before, framework agreements are a black hole in what concerns contract data.
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Regulation 112 - Publication of information on Contracts Finder about contracts awarded Regulation 112 caps Chapter 8 with a set of rules on how contracting authorities are to publish contract award information on Contracts Finder. As we are talking about below-thresholds contracts, the obligation this is a purely national obligation.
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Regulation 110 - Publication of contract opportunities on Contracts Finder This Regulation establishes the obligation for contracting authorities to publish contract award opportunities on Contracts Finder, in addition to any other advertising means they may find appropriate. If the contracting authority does indeed use any other advertising means, the required
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Regulation 108 - Publication of information on Contracts Finder about contracts awarded This Regulation establishes the obligation for contracting authorities to publish on Contracts Finder certain information about contract awards. This obligations kicks in once the contract award notice has been sent to the EU Publications Office or a contract
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Regulation 106 - Publication of information on Contracts Finder where contract notices are used We can find in this Regulation the rules applicable to the publication of information on the national portal Contracts Finder. According to paragraph 1, after a contract notice is sent to publication to the EU Publications
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1. The Crown Commercial Service wants help re-designing its digital services. My suggestion is to put all the damn procurement data available on a easily searchable database format. No, excel spreadsheets are not what I am thinking about. But that is for the ex-post, while the Digital Services Team is