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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Excerpt from World Bank (2019), MAPS Assessment of the Public Procurement Systems of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna 2. The failed tenders were then awarded using the single-source procurement method. of all single-source procurement. more than the same period in 2023.

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Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

Introduction This article is based on the review of standard bidding documents from several organizations including the World Bank , Millennium Challenge Corporation , the Public Procurement and Concession Commission of the Republic of Liberia , and Public Procurement Authority of Ghana.

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Vendors as partners: How Paraguay’s VIGIA provides a community to increase competitiveness and opportunity for SMEs

Open Contracting Partnership

To better understand the challenges small businesses face when bidding for public tenders, and complementary to its Lift impact accelerator project, the Open Contracting Partnership engaged in conversations with entrepreneurs, public officials, and civil society actors with a stake in improving the public procurement system.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

We looked for others who had performed a similar matching, in order to compare and validate our matches, and found the matching performed by ProZorro , the central public procurement system of Ukraine, which was consistent with ours. These texts are quite different from procurement notices.

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7 Secrets to Quicky Become Proficient in Public Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

As a public procurement practitioner you are also a public servant. You manage public funds, are bound by an ethical code of conduct, and are accountable for what you do or fail to do when managing those funds. Leave a comment if you found this article useful. So keep reading and pass on what you learn to others.