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Case study: Investigating suspected fraud with opentender.net

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Their search of the e-procurement database brought up records related to the faith-based community center development project and construction work dating back to 2016. The budget tended to increase over time. In 2016, the local government issued a continued construction tender with an estimated price of Rp. 34 billion.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

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Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. From a single source for failed competitive tenders, billion tenge 417.2 The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16 in 2021 to 4.2

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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

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As aid budgets shrink and the pressure to end aid dependency grows, governments are under growing pressure to maximize domestic resources and value for money. This post was originally published on the ODI Global blog. These could include quality, past performance, sustainability, and social criteria.

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An inclusive approach to improving local infrastructure: Lessons from Buenos Aires

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An ambitious urban renewal process has been taking place in the informal settlements of Buenos Aires since 2016. The platform connects data on tenders, budgets and community monitoring, and reveals gaps in infrastructure projects and access as part of the urbanization process.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

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According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7 In the second case, the road to be repaired had only been built in 2016 and was still in good condition.

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Strengthening public procurement in Africa: a conversation with Joyeuse Uwingeneye

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Kicking off with a pilot in 2016, it built a pioneering e-procurement system and is now working on ensuring its adoption by all government agencies in the country. Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders. It starts from the time you are planning for the budget.

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Improving climate resilience in flood-prone Assam, India

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For example, in March 2023, 95% of the budget for the latest round of flood-related spending went to the six out of ten districts identified by CivicDataLab’s data model as highly vulnerable to flooding and will be used to predominately procure for repair and restoration of roads, bridges and embankments, benefiting approximately 6.5

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