If you spent the last decade winning contracts by sharpening your pencil on price, June 2026 hit hard. The Asian Development Bank rewrote the terms of engagement for every major publicly funded project in the region. The changes are flowing through active tender pipelines now. Suppliers who haven...
According to mid-2026 updates published by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and prominent enterprise solution networks, procurement is moving rapidly from traditional cost-containment to technology-driven orchestration. Two major milestones—the institutional rollout of the IPP...
Compliance Corner We all know that tendering is not a five minute job. Anyone who has ever tried to navigate a multilateral procurement process, or even a straightforward government tender, knows that compliance is where bids are won, lost, or quietly disqualified before anyone gets to the price ...
Procurement experts have long used carbon reduction as the main metric for assessing sustainability. Yet achieving true resilience requires more than simply cutting emissions. Today, the greatest threats to supply chain stability and long-term corporate value stem from ecosystem degradation, biod...
In an MDPI study on Vietnam’s water resources published in Sustainability, while Vietnam’s location, geography, and climate make the country abundant in water sources, its rapid urbanization and industrial growth are putting unprecedented pressure on its water supply systems. With pol...