Procurement
How the government purchases products and services, including tech, makes a significant difference in the quality and value of the tech our governments operate.
"Entire services — tax, immigration, passports, benefits — have been given over to IT suppliers and their favoured consultancies, who in the absence of true competition can inflate contract values in return for maintenance and minimal changes. The resulting pattern is services becoming fixed, more expensive to run and unable to adapt." - Mike Bracken in The Financial Times
Recommended reading:
- Where do the billions go? by Katya Abazajian (2022)
- What lies beneath, by Mark Headd (2021)
- Procurement As a Catalyst: Shop Well To Be a Force For Good (2024)
Public Procurement: Common Risks and How to Address Them
This interactive guide helps you connect everyday public service delivery failures to specific public procurement risks.
Pro-Cure Bot
Your AI Assistant for Tracking Procurement Risks
SOVRA
Streamline Public Sector Purchasing with Government Procurement Software
GovWise
GovWise is the ALL-IN-ONE solution with artificial intelligence supported by over 10 years of market data that helps you sell and increase your revenue in the public sector. Know How
Principles for Public Participation in Procurement of AI
Over 2024/25, ParticipationAI undertook an inquiry driven by the question: “How do we ensure meaningful public participation in decisions about data & AI?”. This led us to procurement...
Infraestructura Abierta
Portal de publicación de información de proyectos de infraestructura de Nuevo León
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The [UK] Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Playbook
This document sets out key policies and guidance for how digital projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered.
Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Public Procurement for Artificial Intelligence.pdf - Google Drive
A Mission- Oriented Playbook
FedRAMP
FedRAMP® provides a standardized, reusable approach to security assessment and authorization for cloud service offerings.
Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Public Procurement for Artificial Intelligence
A playbook commissioned by Participation AI
Toolkit: Worker voice in public sector procurement of digital and AI systems in Wales
This toolkit provides an actionable framework for empowering worker voice throughout the procurement process.
Procurement Reform Sandbox
"a near live environment as a safe place to safely explore, learn, co-design, demonstrate and test the “art of the possible” in public procurement."
Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems
The project Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems investigates why government departments and agencies in different countries are deciding to pause or cancel their use of algorit...
Spending wisely: Redesigning the landscape for the procurement of AI in local government
By Mavis Machirori for Ada Lovelace Institute
Nätverk för samverkan kring öppna data och öppen källkod (NOSAD)
Swedish network for collaboration on open data and open source code
Pôle open source et communs numériques
Nous accompagnons les administrations pour renforcer leur utilisation de logiciels libres, soutenir leurs démarches de publication et de mutualisation de codes sources et créer des liens avec l'écosys...
Working bibliography on public procurement of Artificial Intelligence
[A] collection of works related with AI in public Administration, in a very broad sense.
ParticipationAI
ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.
Lynwood Unified Artificial Intelligence Taskforce
As Lynwood Unified moves forward with integrating artificial intelligence technologies into the classroom, the district is assembling an AI Taskforce to help guide this process. Download Resources
Fonselp
We are a non-profit organization that has created the ideal platform, a SFRM (Sustainability Flow Relationship Manager), to donate, make responsible purchases, measure the impact of your teams, and co...
Stotles
Build more qualified public sector pipeline.
Tussell for Gov
Tussell's market intelligence platform provides the data-led insights you need to make better procurement decisions, drive value-for-money, and promote social value.
Tussell
Get essential insights into opportunities, accounts and competitors with the all-in-one UK public sector market intelligence platform for business development professionals
Government AI Coalition
The GovAI Coalition went public...publishing a set of deliverables any organization could use to help jumpstart their agency with responsible AI practices.
Software Público no Governo Digital Brasil
O Software Público Brasileiro é um tipo específico de software livre que atende às necessidades de modernização da administração pública de qualquer dos Poderes da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Fede...
Sociedad.info
Facilitamos el acceso a contrataciones públicas y beneficiarios reales a través de herramientas de investigación interna y plataformas públicas con el objetivo de incrementar la vigilancia de los recu...
Abrimos.info
En Abrimos.info combinamos nuestra experiencia abriendo datos con amplias capacidades narrativas, investigativas y de desarrollo para crear bases de datos fiables y verificadas que promueven el conoci...
Promoting Responsible Evaluation and Procurement to Advance Readiness for Enterprise-wide Deployment (PREPARED) for AI Act
S.4495 - A bill to enable safe, responsible, and agile procurement, development, and use of artificial intelligence by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
When 'doing ethics' meets public procurement of smart city technology – an Amsterdam case study
[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized
Adopting AI Responsibly: Guidelines for Procurement of AI Solutions by the Private Sector
Adopting AI Responsibly: Guidelines for Procurement of AI Solutions by the Private Sector
Laboratorio GovTech LATAM
Una plataforma de innovación abierta que permite acercar nuevas soluciones digitales a los grandes retos de los municipios participantes.
RoadLab
This Transport for London project looks to introduce new ways to reduce adverse impacts of roadworks in London, by working with innovative companies to shape these in a way that responds to the proble...
Spend Network
Unlock the $13 trillion global procurement market through the world's leading tender, contract, spend and grant data.
El Explorador de Gobierto Contratación
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.
Gobierto Contratación
Tools to improve public procurement processes for companies and public administration
Public Sector Network Marketplace
Your one stop government solution shop
Process code for software procurement
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...
A Snapshot Of Artificial Intelligence Procurement Challenges
Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government
DemandStar
Governments Post Bids, Businesses Get Notified, eBidding Makes It Easy
EUNA Procurement
Bonfire provides software that helps procurement teams and stakeholders come together to make smarter buying decisions, easily and with certainty.
The 10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing - e.Republic
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.”
Fulfilling the promise of e-procurement reform
Lessons from 5 African countries
State Software Collaborative
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 he...
Agile Procurement Playbook
A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.
Skylight
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services.
AI4Cities
Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.
A qué precio?
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 gube...
Analyzing GoC Contract Spending
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.
Procurated
Procurement is complex, but finding great suppliers shouldn’t be. Join thousands of public procurement professionals rating and reviewing suppliers on Procurated.
PPDC's Procurement Governance
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...