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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16 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. From a single source for failed competitive tenders, billion tenge 417.2

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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. Their comments are all published on the site, along with any responses from the procuring entity. What’s next?

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CABEI finances hospital construction projects in Guatemala

BLP

The Government of Guatemala promotes two competitive public procurement events (tenders) for the construction or expansion of hospitals, with financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). Significantly, the winning bidders must ensure the availability of funds during the contract’s term.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

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. The new law that was passed on December 9, 2022 with more details added in the subsequent decree that regulates its implementation.

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Chile’s procurement monitoring system now open to the public

Open Contracting Partnership

ChileCompra has not only established a formal channel for bidders and citizens to report questionable contracts to authorities for the first time, it has also published the Observatory’s investigation reports and statistics on complaints from the public, making oversight of the procurement system fully transparent. Of these, US$19.5

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.

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NAO - framework agreements don't achieve competition!

Naomi Clews Consultancy

Of the 235 large contracts recorded on the public contracts database ' Find a Tender ' between January 2021 and January 2023, 20% of contracts that used open competition only received one bid. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed.