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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. on average in 2021 to 10.23

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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

It is an efficient and cost-effective way to consult the market, it ensures a level playing field for all bidders, and allows for contradictions and potential issues to be flagged early in the procurement process. In October 2024, use of the pre-bidding module became mandatory for Mexico City’s buyers. What’s next?

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Slowing Down Public Sector AI Adoption -- guest post by Saema Jaffer

How to Crack a Nut

I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I says a buyer. AI might be fast, but buyers cannot rely on it to be a subject matter expert. If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable.

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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown. Relationships will benefit when buyers promptly respond to SMEs’ queries and consider them as a valuable and positive part of the job.

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Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

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. Second, they sought to leverage Paraguay’s accessible, high quality open contracting data.

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Sustainable and Circular Procurement Practices in Public Sector Procurement

Tracker Intelligence

Economic Considerations Creating supply chains that help to reduce costs, minimise over spending, and help to improve product quality. This will allow buyers to have clear information on their approach, and how to overcome current risks and promote sustainable changes.