article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

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

Open Contracting Partnership

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. Opentender currently features data on more than 4.6

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

CREDERE to support Colombia’s small businesses to win business with the government

Open Contracting Partnership

This value increased by 30% between 2021 and 2022, years in which more than 58,000 contracts were assigned to SMEs, according to data from the electronic public procurement system (SECOP 2) analyzed by OCP. The value awarded to SMEs in 2022 was 16 billion Colombian pesos (around 28%).

article thumbnail

Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

“Given that governments do not have many policies that effectively enable public purchasing by MSMEs, there was an enormous opportunity for public contracting to be a vehicle that allowed MSMEs to continue operating, accelerating the distribution of money at a time when little money was in circulation.”

article thumbnail

Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

To address those issues, the European Commission was planning to ‘ Elaborate a data initiative for public procurement data covering both the EU dimension (EU datasets, such as TED) and the national ones ’ by the end of 2020, which would be ‘ complemented by a procurement data governance framework ’ by mid 2021.

article thumbnail

How to make better public procurement decisions with business intelligence: Insights from Ukraine

Open Contracting Partnership

Solution: TI Ukraine created and has maintained the free BI Prozorro procurement analytics module for more than eight years, empowering all stakeholders to analyze data from Ukraine’s public procurement system.