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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. The key red flags include ties between providers and politicians, large contracts that have been broken up into smaller ones to undercut thresholds, and links to prohibited practices.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

Given that above threshold procurement data is already (in the process of being) captured at EU level, the PPDS is very much about data on procurement not covered by the EU rules—which represents 80% of all public procurement contracts.