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The achievement Kazakhstan has seen a dramatic decline in the use of single-source procurement in recent years. In the general publicprocurement market (valued at around US$19 billion annually), direct awards have dropped from 81% of the value of all procedures in 2017 to 23.5% on average in 2021 to 10.23 in 2021 to 4.2
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