Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

The report suggests that these high rates of failure could be due to the fact that procuring entities could automatically revert to the single-source method without analyzing the reasons for such failure (a loophole closed by a legal amendment in 2018), as well as minimal use of non-price award criteria and the lack of life-cycle costing.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

million (~US$24,000) being returned to the budget. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget. In late 2022, this question led them to look at value added tax (VAT), the second highest source of revenue for Kazakhstan’s budget. And the media outlet ProTenge has stopped suspicious purchases worth at least US$3 million.

Procurement 120

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C C as possible. This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries.

Finance 52

Finance Price Sustainability Capacity 52