Tools to improve public procurement processes for companies and public administration

• Govtech
• Procurement

El Explorador de Gobierto Contratación reune la información de la Plataforma de Contratación del Estado y de las principales plataformas autonómicas y te permite explotar los datos.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Civic data APIs

Your one stop government solution shop

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

Governments Post Bids, Businesses Get Notified, eBidding Makes It Easy

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Bonfire provides software that helps procurement teams and stakeholders come together to make smarter buying decisions, easily and with certainty.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Procurement

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Procurement

A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.

• guides

• Procurement

Este observatorio de compras públicas en Salud recopila datos sobre los precios que pagan diferentes organismos estatales por medicamentos para permitir su análisis y transparentar la información gubernamental.

• Good health and well-being

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• Govtech
• Civic data

Modular Contracting and Agile Development in government.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• cities
• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.

• Civic data
• Procurement
• Open government data

Procurement is complex, but finding great suppliers shouldn’t be. Join thousands of public procurement professionals rating and reviewing suppliers on Procurated.

• Crowdsourcing
• Procurement
• Govtech vendors

The Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape. With over 4 cardinal program areas of Access to Information, open contracting, procurement monitoring and FOI ranking, PG through strategic reform initiatives, overhauls Nigeria procurement system for improved governance and citizens satisfaction. Our PG initiative has successfully revamped public contracting conducts and access to information by improving disclosure practices of public institutions and their responsiveness to citizens demand; enhanced public service effectiveness in Africa and facilitated increased citizen participation in governance

• Procurement

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Procurement

Pavilion builds technology that empowers public servants to deliver better, faster public services from a wider and more diverse group of businesses.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Tender Monitor provides the public with an in-depth look at government spending in Georgia by making detailed information about state procurement available.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Regulation
• Procurement
• Reports

Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements. Instead, major procurements should be regarded as opportunities to advance the government leaders’ strategic goals. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities Initiative, the Government Performance Lab provides technical assistance to cities that seek to improve the results they achieve with their contracted dollars by employing results-driven contracting strategies, including:

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Procurement

Procurement software developed by procurement professionals for procurement professionals.

• Govtech
• Procurement

the official public purchasing information portal on open procurement in Ukraine

• The Tech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Citymart transforms the way cities solve procurement problems. Citymart is a platform for city government employees to deliver better services, connecting them to urban solutions, projects and peers across departments and around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Procurement

Better policies for better lives

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Open Procurement: digital transformation in procurement

• Participatory budgeting
• Procurement

SmartProcure is a procurement database company for businesses and government agencies.

• Govtech
• Procurement

The city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions. Now, with clear incentives and data collection, employees have a path forward for helping the homeless. But will it work? Journalist Rebecca Gale investigates. Homelessness was on the rise in Seattle. In 2015, Read More

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

This tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Michael Knapp is the CEO and founder of Green River, a software design and development firm that has worked extensively with local governments. He is passionate about social justice, and his firm’s most prominent recent project has involved working with cities to end homelessness. We spoke with him about his experiences with the government procurement Read More

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Procurement software

• Govtech
• Procurement

Watchdogging Czech Republic

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

• Civic data
• Bureaucracy tech
• Procurement

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech