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OCP in 2025: our plans for impact, inclusion, innovation plus a significant birthday

Open Contracting Partnership

As 2025 unfolds, OCP’s work will be needed more than ever. Fortunately, our team is already hard at work helping you make public procurement better for everyone: we kicked off the year supporting reforms in Thailand and sharing how New York City is increasing participation and access to city contracts. So bring on 2025!

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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Progress on transparency and lessons for delivery On February 14, 2025, we released the second Open Olympics 2026 report , analyzing for the first time the data from the portal (updated as of December 31, 2024). Making transparency a prerequisite for future Olympic bids would be the most effective integrity and sustainability safeguard.

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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Federal News Network

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Of the protests resolved on the merits during fiscal year 2024, our Office sustained 16 percent of those protests.

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Why most government contractors are feeling confident about 2025

Federal News Network

Because the line has been that small business participation is on the upswing in terms of the percentage of dollars from contracting, but the number of players is shrinking. The post Why most government contractors are feeling confident about 2025 first appeared on Federal News Network. ” Tom Temin And what about small business?

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UN’s first ever resolution on public procurement: what makes it strong and what’s still missing

Open Contracting Partnership

At 2 am on Saturday morning, the day after the 10th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) was meant to end in Atlanta, exhausted negotiators finally adopted a resolution on “ Promoting transparency and integrity in public procurement in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The renewed Public Procurement Law , which came into force on January 1, 2025, removed the obligation to re-tender after failed tenders with one bid. Procurement of materials for exhibitions, seminars, conferences, training, as well as payment for participation in these events (clause 45, clause 3, article 39) 3.7 in 2023, and 3.7%

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

In addition, a dedicated Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) Competence Center was established in the LPPO to lead implementation and to support contracting authorities and suppliers in their adoption of green criteria. In 2023, the LPPO added a set of key sustainability performance indicators to its procurement dashboard.