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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

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. All state-regulated procurement in Kazakhstan totaled US $61 billion in 2023, or 23% of gross domestic product. in 2021 to 4.2

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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Although there was an official delivery plan for the Games, as specified in a September 2023 governmental decree, we found data and documents on its delivery scattered across various public and private actors. More generally, there is room for improvement in the quantity and quality of the data on the platform.

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The UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan -- a procurement view

How to Crack a Nut

Moreover, some of the other proposals around prototypes and light-touch procurement processes can be problematic when coupled with the Procurement Act 2023 (soon to enter into force). Mission-focussed national AI tenders to support rapid adoption across de-centralised systems led by the mission delivery boards. 41 PA23 and Sch.5

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023. As of April 2024, 120 inspectorate offices nationwide have access to the system, up from 35 in 2023. “We It’s the first time this is happening in Indonesia,” says ICW’s Kes Tuturoong.

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How Ukraine’s procurement appeals tool Clarity App promotes fair competition

Open Contracting Partnership

Results : The Clarity App is building trust among Ukrainian businesses that they can receive a fair decision for procurement appeals and fair competition without discrimination in tenders. In 2023, Ukraine awarded 270,000 public contracts through competitive procedures , worth 555 billion UAH ($15.2 billion (US$1.9 billion (US$1.9

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Digging out data to shine a light on public buying in Mongolia

Open Contracting Partnership

To tackle this problem, the country has proposed wide-ranging legislation , including an anti-corruption package with measures to standardize the operations of Mongolia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and ensure they follow consistent rules throughout processes like tendering and procurement, among others.

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

And those difficulties and clashes are exacerbated by several layers of multi-level governance and decision-making in public procurement, which create additional scope for conflict and contestation in the process of translating general legislative and policy goals into decisions on the design of public tenders and public contracts.