UK framework usage data 2008-2013
The usage of framework agreements in the UK increased significantly between 2008 and 2012 but appears to be tapering off. Data for 2013 is incomplete as it runs only until August.
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Infraestruturas de Portugal AI agent procurement: bots, agents and open source
Infraestruturas de Portugal’s BIA AI procurement is criticized as overly ambitious and risky. The post highlights security concerns with AI agents and challenges the “open source” requirement, noting most AI models are only open weights, raising legal and technical issues.
Infraestruturas de Portugal AI Agent procurement: contract price, cost and award criteria
After the first entry and yesterday's one on the object of the Infraestruturas de Portugal attempt to procure an AI agent, it is time to look into the contract value and its cost. Those may look as synonyms but are not. The award criteria will be covered in
Infraestruturas de Portugal AI agent procurement: contract object
Yesterday I started this series of blogposts by some procedural aspects of the project. Today, we're moving on to the object of the contract, that is BIA the Artificial Intelligence Bot (or agent). And here things are interesting as well to say the least. BIA is to be
Infraestruturas de Portugal jumps with two feet into the AI agentic era
I saw on the cover of a portuguese financial newspaper a couple of weeks ago a piece about Infraestruturas de Portugal (the state-owned infrastructure public company) tendering a €1M contract for an AI tool called BIA - Bot de Inteligencia Artificial (Artificial Intelligence Bot) to be used to assist in