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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

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. The failed tenders were then awarded using the single-source procurement method.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

While it’s too early to see system-wide changes, open data analyzed by OCP shows signs that participation by smaller businesses is increasing: from July 2022 to July 2023, the share of contracts awarded to MSMEs rose by 1.7%, the share of MSME bids increased by 1.9%, the share of unique MSME bidders grew by 1.4%