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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

This undermines business confidence, leading to low competition and higher prices for goods and services. The amendment to the Public Procurement Law of December 2018 introduced mandatory re-tenders (or auctions) after failed procedures. Failed procurement accounted for 52% of the value of all government procurement in 2018.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Particularly, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) core inflation rate for January 2024 was 2.8%. [30] 33] Importantly, since the inflation high water marks of 2022, mostly what has occurred is disinflation (decrease of the inflation rate), not actual deflation (price decreases). down from 5.5%

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

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

Relative prices (final price divided by the initially estimated price) decreased by 1.9 However, the share of non-open procedures and relative prices did not change significantly. percentage points. Moreover, intervening changes happening during the period after the transparency intervention in Slovakia (e.g.

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