How to integrate ecolabels and environmental management systems in public procurement?
The Nordic Council of Ministers has put out recently a manual addressing that issue:
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The manual is available here.
The Nordic Council of Ministers has put out recently a manual addressing that issue:
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The manual is available here.
Today's post continues to look into the substantive elements of the Infraestruturas de Portugal procurement process for BIA. It will start by discussing open weight models before moving on to OCR (optical character recognition) and RAG (retrieval augmented generation) before concluding with the deployment plans for BIA. It
The EU procurement consultation shows low participation and a divide: public buyers want flexibility, businesses prefer clear rules. Shared trends include less focus on lowest price and competition, but results may be unrepresentative.
Infraestruturas de Portugal’s BIA AI procurement is criticized as overly ambitious and risky. The post highlights security concerns with AI agents and challenges the “open source” requirement, noting most AI models are only open weights, raising legal and technical issues.
After the first entry and yesterday's one on the object of the Infraestruturas de Portugal attempt to procure an AI agent, it is time to look into the contract value and its cost. Those may look as synonyms but are not. The award criteria will be covered in