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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. These reforms improved efficiency as the decentralization of the procurement function allowed for quicker decision-making.

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Purchasing uncertain or indefinite requirements – guest post by ?erban Filipon

How to Crack a Nut

Paradoxically, the subject has so far received rather limited attention, particularly when it comes to analysing the phenomenon systematically, across a variety of (very) different public procurement systems and/or international instruments.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

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It is now being piloted and refined and a version of the tool will then be open to the public and for business and civic monitoring. Efficiency is key. But “public procurement systems are not primarily about anti-corruption, but about guaranteeing development and public investment,” Pimentel says. “We

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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. 2018) dataset. 2015) and the Multi-Genre NLI (Williams et al.,

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How Ukraine’s procurement appeals tool Clarity App promotes fair competition

Open Contracting Partnership

The app’s comprehensive database of procurement appeals sources data from the Prozorro public procurement system, as well as decisions on complaints made to the Antimonopoly Committee, and investigations by the State Audit Service.