Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I am delighted to present to How to Crack a Nut readers an outline of my recently published book Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists and Other Public Procurement Tools: Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements (Hart Publishing, 2023).

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. The platform was co-developed by OCP and the business community together with the government. And how could we reach those entrepreneurs?

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. Public procurement stands out as the most vulnerable sector to corruption in Indonesia. billion). “We

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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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process.

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