Acronyms and abbreviations

ACOPI

Colombian Association for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Asociación Colombiana de Micros, Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas)

AIP

Australian Industry Participation

AIS

Acquisition Information Service, Canada

ASP

Application service provider

BBG

Federal Procurement Agency (Bundesbeschaffung GmbH), Austria

CAs

Contracting authorities

CBS

Central Bureau for Statistics, Netherlands

CCE

Colombia Compra Eficiente

CCS

Commonwealth Contracting Suite, Australia

CIF

Construction Industry Federation

CPBs

Central purchasing bodies

CPPP

Central Purchasing and Public Procurement, Bulgaria

CPRs

Commonwealth Procurement Rules, Australia

DBEI

Department of Business Enterprise and Innovation, Ireland

Difi

Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Direktoratet for Forvaltning Og Ikt), Norway

DGRGCC

Directorate-General for Rationalisation and Public Procurement Centralisation (Dirección General de Racionalización y Centralización de la Contratación), Spain

DIW

German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

DPS

Dynamic purchasing system

EC

European Commission

EDWOSB

Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business Program, United States

ENAPROCE

National Survey of Productivity and Competitiveness for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Encuesta Nacional sobre Productividad y Competitividad de las Micro, Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas), Mexico

EOs

Economic operators

ESPD

European Single Procurement Document

EU

European Union

FIVOSZ

Young Entrepreneurs Association Hungary (Fiatal Vállalkozók Országos Szövetsége)

GPA

Government Procurement Agreement

HUBZone

Historically Underutilized Business Zones, United States

IBEC

Irish Business and Employers Confederation

IMPI

Mexican Institute of Industry Property (Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial), Mexico

INAC

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada

INE

National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística), Spain

INEGI

National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía), Mexico

ISIC

International Standard Industrial Classification

ISME

Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, Ireland

KEF

Procurement and Supply Directorate (Közbeszerzési és Ellátási Főigazgatóság), Hungary

KNB

Competence Centre for Sustainable Public Procurement (Kompetenzstelle für nachhaltige Beschaffung beim Beschaffungsamt des Bundesministeriums des Innern), Germany

KOINNO

Competence Centre for Innovative Procurement (Kompetenzzentrum innovative Beschaffung), Germany

KONEPS

Korean e-Procurement System

LAASSP

Law of Acquisitions, Leases and Services of the Public Sector (Ley de Adquisiciones, Arrendamientos y Servicios del Sector Público), Mexico

OGP

Office of Government Procurement, Ireland

OSME

Office of Small and Medium Enterprises, Canada

MEDT

Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine

MEF

Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy

MEIC

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Comercio), Costa Rica

MePA

Public Administration e Marketplace (Mercato Elettronico Pubblica Amministrazione), Italy

MKB Nederlans

Small and medium-sized firms (Midden- en kleinbedrijf), Netherlands

MOU

Memorandum of understanding

MSMEs

Micro-enterprises and SMEs

NHO

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon), Norway

PARP

Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (Polska Agencja Rozwoju Przedsiębiorczości)

PBN

Procurement Business Number, Canada

PCI

Procurement Capability Index, New Zealand

PEMEX

Petróles Mexicanos, Mexico

PGCM

Program for a Close and Modern Government (Programa para un Gobierno Cercano y Moderno), Mexico

PPA

Public Procurement Act, Hungary

PPL

Public Procurement Law, Poland

PPO

Public Procurement Office, Poland

PPS

Public Procurement Service, Korea

PSPC

Public Services and Procurement Canada

RfQ

Requests for quotations

RHS

Public Procurement Act (Riigihangete seadus), Estonia

SAT

Simplified Acquisition Threshold, United States

SBIR

Small Business Innovation Research Ireland

SDVOSB

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program, United States

SFA

Small Firms Association, Ireland

SII

Internal Revenue Service (Servicio de Impuestos Internos), Chile

SKI

National Procurement Ltd (Staten og Kommunernes Indkøbsservice A/S), Denmark

SMBA

Small and Medium Business Administration, Korea

SMSGC

Subcontract Management System for Government Contracts, Korea

SOE

State-owned enterprise

TAPAS

Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

WOSB

Woman Owned Small Business Program, United States

WTO

World Trade Organization

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