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AP

Acquisitions Programme, Canada

APS

American Purchasing Society

ARI

Administración de Riesgos Institucionales (Institutional Risk Management Model), Mexico

BICRO

Business Innovation Center of Croatia

BPQR

Best price-quality ratio

CA

Contracting authority

CFE

Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Federal Electricity Commission), Mexico

CIPS

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply

CPBs

Central purchasing bodies

CR

Contract registers

CTRIA

Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency

DAE

Direction des Achats de l’État (State Purchasing Directorate), France

DAFP

Departmento Adiministrativo de la Función Pública (Department for Public Employment), Colombia

DEX IC

DEX, Innovation Centre, Czech Republic

Difi

Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt (Agency for Public Management and eGovernment), Norway

DP

Departmental Plans, Canada

DPS

Dynamic Purchasing Systems

DRR

Departmental Results Reports, Canada

DS4P

Dynamic Sourcing for Panels, Australia

EC

European Commission

ERP

Enterprise resource planning

eSPap

Entidade de Serviços Partilhados da Administração Pública (Public Administration Shared Service Entity), Portugal

ESPD

European Single Procurement Document

EU

European Union

FA

Framework agreement

FAPIIS

Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, United States

FIDO

Federaal Instituut voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (Federal Institute for Sustainable Development), Belgium

GPP

Green public procurement

IT

Information technology

KONEPS

Korea ON-line E-Procurement System

KPIs

Key performance indicators

LCC

Life cycle cost

LPP

(Working Party of the) Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement, OECD

MAF

Management Accountability Framework, Canada

MAPS

Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems

MAS

Multiple award schedules

MEAT

Most economically advantageous tender

MECI

Modelo Estandar de Control Interno (Internal Control Standard Model), Colombia

MENA

Middle East and North Africa

MePA

Public Administration e-Marketplace, Italy

MIPG

Modelo Integrado de Planeación y Gestión (Integrated Planning and Management Model), Colombia

MNE

Multinational enterprises

MPU

Ministry purchasing units, Portugal

NAO

National Audit Office, United Kingdom

NAPP

National Agency for Public Procurement, Sweden

NDPC

National Database on Public Contracts, Italy

NAPP

National Agency for Public Procurement, Sweden

OAG

Office of the Auditor General, Canada

OCP

Open Contracting Partnership

OCDS

Open Contracting Data Standard

OJEU

Official Journal of the European Union

OSCE

Organismo Supervisor de las Contrataciones del Estado (Government Procurement Supervising Agency), Peru

PCI

Procurement Capability Index, New Zealand

PGC

Public Governance Committee, OECD

PIN

Prior Information Notice

PPI

Public procurement of innovative solutions, European Union

PPIRS

Past Performance Information Retrieval System, United States

PPS

Public Procurement Service, Korea

PRC

Peer Review Committee, Canada

PSC

Procurement Strategy Committee, Canada

PSPC

Public Services and Procurement Canada

PTAR

Programa de Trabajo de Administración de Riesgos (Working Programme of Risk Management), Mexico

RARR

Rzeszowska Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego (Rzeszow Regional Development Agency), Poland

RFI

Requests for information

SAI

Supreme audit institutions

SECOP

Sistema Electrónico para la Contratación Pública (Electronic System for Public Contracting), Colombia

SFP

Secretaría de la Función Pública (Secretariat for Civil Service), Mexico

SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises

SNCP

Sistema Nacional de Compras Públicas (National Public Procurement System), Portugal

TAIEX

Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument, European Commission

TBS

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

TED

Tenders Electronic Daily

TVEC

Tienda Virtual del Estado Colombiano (Virtual Store for the Colombian State), Colombia

UNITO

University of Torino, Italy

Vai

Virtual Assistant Interface, New Zealand

VPM

Vendor Performance Management, Canada

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