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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Since launching their platform in 2020, Diegues and Blanco have built a set of digital tools and data analytics services that have bridged the gap between more than 250 private sector users and public procurement buyers in six countries across Latin America. According to the World Bank, public contracts account for 15% of global GDP.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

The app’s comprehensive database of procurement appeals sources data from the Prozorro public procurement system, as well as decisions on complaints made to the Antimonopoly Committee, and investigations by the State Audit Service. Thus, it strengthens the credibility of the procurement appeal body.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Fewer than 300 MSMEs participate in a procurement market worth almost US$3 billion annually.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Impact of the Procurement Act 2023 on Framework Agreements New regulations included in the Procurement Act 2023 seek to boost public procurement’s transparency and accountability. These agreements provide a predictable and accessible route into public sector opportunities for suppliers.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2).

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