Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To tackle this problem, the country has proposed wide-ranging legislation , including an anti-corruption package with measures to standardize the operations of Mongolia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and ensure they follow consistent rules throughout processes like tendering and procurement, among others.

Data 115

Data Corruption Supplier Media 115

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The public procurement agency improved access to information about upcoming opportunities for women-led and small businesses and conducted training to improve their capacity to respond. The team have expanded their capacity to manage these updated processes.

E-procurement 84

E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Bidding 84

The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis. A more formal method is to issue a Request for Information (RFI).

Procurement 52

Procurement Market Analysis Bidder Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. We built capacity to show that there is an opportunity to change how things are done. Also, women lack awareness of tender opportunities, struggle to connect with relevant business networks, and struggle to break open the “boys club.”

Government Contracts 73

Government Contracts Leadership Government Government 73

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Construction Tenders Securing lucrative contracts in the dynamic engineering and construction industry requires an understanding of the tendering process. A formal call for bids on a project, known as a tender, initiates the bidding process among prospective contractors.

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Bidder Competitive Bidding 52

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

These behaviors are commercially advantageous, increasing competition to directly improve quality, drive down costs, and improve project ROI. This policy required the inclusion of Indigenous businesses in public opportunities without requiring an overly burdensome and costly tender process. Ethical Spend Toolset.

Supplier 98

Supplier Ethics E-procurement Supply Chain 98

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

Especially because, while the CCS AI DPS tries to address some issues, such as ethical risks (though the effectiveness of this can also be queried), it makes clear that ‘quality, price and cultural fit (including social value) can be assessed based on individual customer requirements’.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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.

Procurement 58

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 58

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. in 2020 to 59.7%

Corruption 71

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 71

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. It is an underfunded, paper-based government chore: we want to turn procurement into a smart, user-friendly, digital public service.

Procurement 84

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 84

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

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).

Bidder 40

Bidder Transparency Contract Public Procurement 40

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. Civic procurement monitoring in Kazakhstan at a glance Members of Kun Jarygy have monitored 1,222 tenders worth KZT 346 billion (~US$725 million) in the coalition’s first year.

Procurement 113

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 113