Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 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. on average in 2021 to 10.23 in 2021 to 4.2 percentage points in 2024).

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society.

Corruption 78

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. One key recommendation was to require government buyers to pay advances to MSME suppliers at 20% of the full contract value.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

We looked for others who had performed a similar matching, in order to compare and validate our matches, and found the matching performed by ProZorro , the central public procurement system of Ukraine, which was consistent with ours. A summary of the 3-level structure we used for green criteria related to furniture.

Procurement 62

Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics 62