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. This undermines business confidence, leading to low competition and higher prices for goods and services. by value in 2022, 3.2%

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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. In addition, price overruns continued to plague procurement outcomes, as well as poor contract execution, manifested through poor quality works and delays.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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. Șerban Filipon is senior procurement consultant.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

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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