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. Purchasing methods 2021 2022 2023 2024 From a single source by direct award, billion tenge 2 326.2 by value in 2022, 3.2%

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Affecting around 4000 public buyers, the decree defines procurement as ‘green’ if it uses green criteria, recognized certificates, ecolabels or environmental management systems for no less than 50% of total procurement value. In 2023, the LPPO added a set of key sustainability performance indicators to its procurement dashboard.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

They are also working on tools to help contracting authorities to analyze their own data, for example, to monitor the average lead time of their tenders, or decide which award criteria to use when preparing a tender. They used the data to address specific agencies, and posted about it on LinkedIn.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In late 2022, this question led them to look at value added tax (VAT), the second highest source of revenue for Kazakhstan’s budget. Adildik Joly alerted the suppliers that they’d been caught out, and with sustained pressure, the companies voluntarily returned the stolen funds. Implementing sustainable procurement practices.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Introducing more sustainable procurement policies and processes presents an enormous opportunity for public authorities to not only contribute to reaching carbon emission reduction goals but also to drive sustainable societal and economic development. These were refined into simple sentences to express the green requirements.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Dagne Sabockis, ‘ The Principle of Competition in the Context of Green Public Procurement – the Case of Green Award Criteria ’ (2023) 18(4) EPPPL 237-243 (£/€). Albert Sanchez-Graells, ‘Competition and procurement regulation’ in Carina Risvig Hamer et al (eds), Into the Northern Light – In memory of Steen Treumer (Ex Tuto, 2022) 65-81.

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