Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 70

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Public procurement is one of the key ways of corruptly channelling money out of the state, not least because it is one of the few areas of public spending in which there is significant discretion. That means that, in a well-functioning state, there will be many bodies with an interest in controlling and overseeing procurement.

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Public Procurement Integration Integrity Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 25, 2024

a day—are poorer today than before COVID-19 and deeper in debt than at any time since 2006. A critical finding and recommendation of the World Bank report is to strengthen the transparency and efficiency of public spending and procurement, including through open data and digital procurement reforms. But I disagree.

Finance 57

Finance Public Procurement Procurement Transparency 57

The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There is an article in the Legal Edge Issue 67 June-July 2006 written by Donna Kennedy-Glans is a commercial lawyer and advisor to corporate boards, and Robert Schulz is a senior Professor of Strategic Management at the Professor of Strategic Management at the Haskayne School of Business in Calgary. The risk is high.

Ethics 98

Ethics Import Procurement Public Procurement 98

How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I am delighted to present to How to Crack a Nut readers an outline of my recently published book Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists and Other Public Procurement Tools: Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements (Hart Publishing, 2023).

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Purchasing Framework Agreement Public Procurement Public Procurement System 52

The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

Where price analysis is a mandatory requirement for all procurements, such as in the case of the MCC-PPG, an unreasonable price is a reason for rejecting a bid. Handbook, Advanced Certificate in Public Procurement Level 3. Procurement Services Unit, United Nations Development Program, (Copenhagen, Denmark), 150.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Price Bidding Procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 2, 2024

Also, (ii) Worley allegedly violated the Ecuadorian law by misrepresenting its intention to comply with the 30% subcontracting limit mandated by Article 87 of the Public Procurement Law and subsequently breached this limit. ARB/03/26, Award of 2 August 2006) cases. In possible exchange, Worley may have awarded Shaw a US$ 1.2

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Corruption Bidding Balance Public Procurement 40