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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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Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. Results: The reform has led to significant improvements, particularly in audits triggered by public complaints.

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

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Bogota, Colombia, 4 October 2023 — Colombia’s public procurement market is around $150 billion annually, making it a unique opportunity to boost business growth, especially for small companies. CREDERE operates directly with open data on public contracting to unlock new opportunities for small companies in public procurement.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

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Results: A year after the new procurement law was passed, the public procurement agency (DNCP) is using machine-learning to identify tenders that are most likely to be awarded to smaller businesses. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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

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The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. As the PPDS Communication stresses To unlock the full potential of public procurement, access to data and the ability to analyse it are essential.

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

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The professional ProBI module is a report-building tool that allows advanced Qlik users to create and save their own selections and customize the appearance of reports based on all available parameters in the Prozorro procurement system.