Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

Why it matters An overreliance on non-competitive procedures makes the procurement market highly vulnerable to corruption and inefficient public spending. In total, 1200 criminal corruption offenses were registered in Kazakhstan from January to July 2024 8.1% more than the same period in 2023.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Felix Zimmermann from the German government shared how Germany is integrating sustainability and inclusion into its practices through a monthly roadmap for ICT procurement, training programs for vendors, digitization, and improving data management, including publishing open contracting data through the Bekanntmachungsservice ÖffentlicheVergabe.de.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. However, unlocking most of these functionalities is not dependent on the PPDS, but rather on the existence of procurement data at the ‘right’ level.

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