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. The data also indicates that buyers are making a concerted effort to improve their planning.

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Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. In 2023, the LPPO added a set of key sustainability performance indicators to its procurement dashboard.

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In July 2023, a procurement monitoring community platform was launched that will serve as a central repository for the efforts and knowledge of the ecosystem. The e-procurement system generated savings worth 485 billion tenge (~US$1 billion) in 2021, (calculated by the Center as the difference between the budget and awarded value).

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

On TenderNed’s website, they regularly publish insights into key issues, such as the top 10 innovation-friendly public buyers , most common purchases (using CPV codes) , and the substantial increase in hiring of consultancy firms. They used the data to address specific agencies, and posted about it on LinkedIn.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the EU, the TED data was somewhat incomplete; for example, in 2022, about 75% of the 7,817 procurement notices contained technical criteria (the rest expressed these criteria in separate documents that would have needed to be downloaded from individual procurement authority’s websites), and only about 50% contained non-price award criteria.

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Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics 62