Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system. The strategy outlined in the NACP aimed to establish a dedicated public procurement law and revamp existing procurement practices. However, the real challenge lies in translating these principles into effective practices.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Results: The reform has led to significant improvements, particularly in audits triggered by public complaints. According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Results: The number of women-led businesses registered in the official state public procurement system increased by 43% from 2021 and 2022 to a total of 158 businesses, winning a total of 47 contracts, up from a mere 7 in 2020. In comparison, only 7 women-led businesses had won contracts in 2020.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Bidding 89

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Public procurement in Colombia faces a crucial moment. The value awarded to SMEs in 2022 was 16 billion Colombian pesos (around 28%). The public procurement market in Colombia offers a unique opportunity to promote business growth and achieve greater economic development.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

While it’s too early to see system-wide changes, open data analyzed by OCP shows signs that participation by smaller businesses is increasing: from July 2022 to July 2023, the share of contracts awarded to MSMEs rose by 1.7%, the share of MSME bids increased by 1.9%, the share of unique MSME bidders grew by 1.4%

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By 2022, DGCP launched its data and monitoring system “Sistema Integral de Monitoreo y Análisis de Datos” publicly. Anti-corruption as a means to an end As the procurement agency further develops its data monitoring systems, they are becoming more sophisticated, integrating new variables and machine learning.

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Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

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.

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