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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

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on average in 2021 to 10.23 in 2021 to 4.2 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. New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. trillion tenge (US$25.1

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

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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. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

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Results: The reform has led to significant improvements, particularly in audits triggered by public complaints. The collaboration revolves around the corruption risk monitoring platform, Opentender.net , developed by ICW and the national public procurement agency LKPP. billion). “We

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

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The team developed a three-pronged strategy: talk to MSMEs and build their capacity to bid on contracts; simplify the bidding process for smaller businesses; and use innovative technology to better measure and manage opportunities for small business vendors.