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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The achievement Kazakhstan has seen a dramatic decline in the use of single-source procurement in recent years. In the general public procurement market (valued at around US$19 billion annually), direct awards have dropped from 81% of the value of all procedures in 2017 to 23.5% in 2021 to 4.2 in 2024.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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I was invited to provide an entry on ‘public procurement’ for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law co-edited by Andrea Biondi and Oana Stefan. things going on in procurement. Public Procurement I. Below is my draft entry with perhaps an eclectic choice of content.

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How was 2020 for a Bid Manager?

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2020 comes to an end, and we take a look back at the bizarre range of events that the bidding community stood testimony to this year. COVID has dominated all over the last 12 months and caused significant changes in the tendering business like many others. Bureau of Economic Analysis following a record break fall of GDP by 31.4%

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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

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Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. And two-thirds of public spending is conducted through an opaque quasi-governmental sector. The new regime’s reforms have been met with skepticism by some observers.

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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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Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process.

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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.

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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

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Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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