Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 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. in 2021 to 4.2

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Challenge: In Ukraine, a lack of machine-readable data about procurement appeals made it difficult for government suppliers to defend their rights and interests. The Prozorro e-procurement system allows participants of an auction to review competitors’ documents, which makes it possible to dispute errors in their tender proposals.

Procurement 67

Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, “[a] principal client’s sudden and unexpected termination of a major contract with the employer, a strike at a major supplier of the employer, and an unanticipated and dramatic major economic downturn might each be considered a business circumstance that is not reasonably foreseeable.” [72]

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Government Contracts Government Government Contract 52