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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

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. The public register of providers was also automated in places like South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, to mention but a few.

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CREDERE to support Colombia’s small businesses to win business with the government

Open Contracting Partnership

This value increased by 30% between 2021 and 2022, years in which more than 58,000 contracts were assigned to SMEs, according to data from the electronic public procurement system (SECOP 2) analyzed by OCP. We bring open data and open government together to make public contracting fair and effective.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

We looked for others who had performed a similar matching, in order to compare and validate our matches, and found the matching performed by ProZorro , the central public procurement system of Ukraine, which was consistent with ours. 2015) and the Multi-Genre NLI (Williams et al., 2018) dataset.