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eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2148 nodes and 2339 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 17345 nodes and 21524 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Pactum, which helps companies automate supplier negotiations with AI and secure more favorable contractual terms, raised a $54M Series C led by Insight Partners (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/09/pactum-raises-…

Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE
Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2256 nodes and 2678 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Missing Targeting Pods, Inflated Bills: Inside the Troubled Su-57 Procurement Program: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/missing-targeting-pods-inflated-bills.html

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 8956 nodes and 13905 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Levelpath, which provides AI-powered enterprise procurement services, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/next-gen-procurement-platform-…

Next-gen procurement platform Levelpath nabs $55M | TechCrunch
The investment signals confidence in Levelpath's fast growth and its potential to disrupt a market dominated by legacy players.

EPC Framework for BESS Projects
Zeenat Hameed, Chresten Tr{\ae}holt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13281…

EPC Framework for BESS Projects
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are critical for modern power networks, supporting grid services such as frequency regulation, peak shaving, and black start. Delivering a BESS under an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) model requires a concise methodology that balances regulatory compliance, technical details, and schedule efficiency. This paper presents a streamlined, five step EPC framework covering feasibility assessment, permitting, procurement, construction, and commis…

Voltage Support Procurement in Transmission Grids: Incentive Design via Online Bilevel Games
Zhisen Jiang, Saverio Bolognani, Giuseppe Belgioioso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05378

Voltage Support Procurement in Transmission Grids: Incentive Design via Online Bilevel Games
The integration of distributed energy resources into transmission grid operations presents a complex challenge, particularly in the context of reactive power procurement for voltage support. This paper addresses this challenge by formulating the voltage regulation problem as a Stackelberg game, where the Transmission System Operator (TSO) designs incentives to guide the reactive power responses of Distribution System Operators (DSOs). We utilize a gradient-based iterative algorithm that updates…

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 26199 nodes and 48232 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Drowning in infosec news overload? Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the most critical developments you should know, including
--UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
--Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack,
--LexisNexis Risk Solutions breach affects 364K,
--Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack,
--US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders,
--ASUS …

UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack, LexisNexis risk arm breach affects 364K, Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack, US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders, ASUS routers ensnared by novel botnet, APT41 exploited Google Calendar, much more

Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/construction-supply-chain-startup-parspec/

Exclusive: AI-Powered Construction Procurement Startup Lands $20M Series A 
Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain to help sales agents and wholesale distributors “efficiently bid and supply” construction products, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 4585 nodes and 4694 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Discover how the energy as a service model is revolutionizing industrial energy procurement. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How the energy as a service model is disrupting industrial energy procurement
Fast Company Executive Board member Jay Bhatty highlights how EaaS is changing traditional utility models.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

A branded gTLD in use.
Nippon Telegraph and Telegram (Japan)
#domains #domain

NTT / NTT Group
NTT Group's website. Learn about NTT Group, Press Release, Business, Investor Relations, R&D, CSR, Disaster Countermeasures, Environmental Activities, Procurement, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Profile, Careers information.

US kicks off $151bn procurement process for Trump's 'Golden Dome' (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b8cbefc9-9e68-4ba9-a621-667024481a5b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p114#a250725p114

@rikefranke.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ain’t it fascinating how fast we‘re picking up new expertise? Yesterday we were football trainers, today we revolutionize procurement, tomorrow we present our solutions to another endless war. A-ma-zing!

Pay Clauses in Public Procurement: The Wage Impact of Collective Bargaining Compliance Laws in Germany
Vinzenz Pyka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01458 https:…

Pay Clauses in Public Procurement: The Wage Impact of Collective Bargaining Compliance Laws in Germany
Using administrative data from Germany, this study provides first evidence on the wage effects of collective bargaining compliance laws. These laws require establishments receiving public contracts to pay wages set by a representative collective agreement, even if they are not formally bound by one. Leveraging variation in the timing of law implementation across federal states, and focusing on the public transport sector -- where regulation is uniform and demand is driven solely by state-level …

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Attached: 1 image 🚨 Massive security breach: Russian nuclear weapons infrastructure exposed online Danwatch & Der Spiegel uncovered blueprints, layouts, and internal systems of Russia’s most sensitive nuclear missile sites—including Avangard-equipped silos—via leaked procurement docs.

Germany reportedly mulls $29 billion tank, vehicle order to deter Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/germany-reportedly-mulls-billion-tank.html

Designing DSIC Mechanisms for Data Sharing in the Era of Large Language Models
Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh, Kourosh Shahnazari, Mohammmadali Keshtparvar, MohammadAmin Fazli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05379

Designing DSIC Mechanisms for Data Sharing in the Era of Large Language Models
Training large language models (LLMs) requires vast amounts of high-quality data from institutions that face legal, privacy, and strategic constraints. Existing data procurement methods often rely on unverifiable trust or ignore heterogeneous provider costs. We introduce a mechanism-design framework for truthful, trust-minimized data sharing that ensures dominant-strategy incentive compatibility (DSIC), individual rationality, and weak budget balance, while rewarding data based on both quality …

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

"Zimbabwe starts construction on 10 MW solar plant"
#Zimbabwe #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Zimbabwe starts construction on 10 MW solar plant
China's Sany Silicon Energy is building its first solar plant in Zimbabwe. The project uses the company's EP+F business model combining engineering, procurement and financing.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 4447 nodes and 6713 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2817 nodes and 2817 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 1770 nodes and 3997 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2189 nodes and 2320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07385 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Partial Allocations in Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design: Bridging Multiple Levels of Service and Divisible Agents
Budget-feasible procurement has been a major paradigm in mechanism design since its introduction by Singer (2010). An auctioneer (buyer) with a strict budget constraint is interested in buying goods or services from a group of strategic agents (sellers). In many scenarios it makes sense to allow the auctioneer to only partially buy what an agent offers, e.g., an agent might have multiple copies of an item to sell, they might offer multiple levels of a service, or they may be available to perfor…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

"South Africa approves six solar projects totaling 1,290 MW"
#SouthAfrica #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

South Africa approves six solar projects totaling 1,290 MW
An additional six solar projects have been approved as part of South Africa’s seventh renewables procurement round following the reallocation of unused onshore wind capacity to solar bids.