Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

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. Year 2014 2017 2018 2021 2022 2024 Number of exceptions 67 54 50 48 47 43 Source OECD OECD World Bank Kapital.kz in 2021 to 4.2 in 2023, and 3.7%

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Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The awarded contract worth € 2,4 million was a result of an extensive European tendering procedure which took almost 1 year. The awarding criteria was 60% on quality and 40% on price.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Affecting around 4000 public buyers, the decree defines procurement as ‘green’ if it uses green criteria, recognized certificates, ecolabels or environmental management systems for no less than 50% of total procurement value. We were even more ambitious than the government aiming to have 100% of green procurement from 2022.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

2018) dataset. At present, the low adoption of green criteria is the main barrier. The model we used is described in Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks, which states: “We train SBERT on the combination of the SNLI (Bowman et al., 2015) and the Multi-Genre NLI (Williams et al.,

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