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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

Open Contracting Partnership

Data scientists, journalists, researchers and former civil servants with an interest in public procurement are systematically monitoring contracting procedures for corruption risks and irregularities , using analytics tools that source data from the government’s e-procurement system via a public API.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. When choosing a model, it’s important to understand its training data. 2018) dataset.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

After analysing procurement as a regulatory actor , a new draft chapter for my book project focuses on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract, to assess their suitability for the task. This erodes the practical scope of using technical specifications as regulatory instruments.