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The power of procurement data: How one villager unveiled a corruption scandal

Open Contracting Partnership

Concerns were raised over suspicious tendering practices such as short bidding periods, overly rigid specifications, and potential collusion. Open data provides the foundation for these other elements to thrive, enabling citizens, journalists, and authorities to act as watchdogs and hold those in power accountable.

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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

Reading the Evropaïki Dynamiki (ESP-ISEP) Judgment, one cannot but wonder if EU public procurement rules do not still impose an excessive degree of transparency in the debriefing of disappointed bidders. Therefore, rules on disclosure of information should take into account their potentially restrictive or distortive effects on competition.

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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

How to Crack a Nut

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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What is the FAR: Your Guide to the Federal Acquisition Regulation

Select GCR

For instance, FAR includes a provision at 52.203-2, Certificate of Independent Price Determination, which ensures independent bids and prevents collusive pricing in government contracting. In addition, the government accountability office plays a crucial role in monitoring and evaluating the performance of these agencies.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. However, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED].

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The Future of Tax Administrations Lies in the Intelligence Generated by Big Data

Inter-American Development Bank

The latter has made it possible to process large amounts of data on economic transactions, which can now be used to provide more transparency about the prices of goods and services, and even a more precise measurement of economic activity. Boosting market transparency.

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