Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But despite the system’s wide adoption, unlocking Umucyo’s data for analysis has proved challenging, and affected the government’s ability to track the procurement system’s performance in areas such as efficiency, value for money and contract implementation.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The KSA’s Government Tenders and Procurement Law also received an important update in June 2023 with the issuance of Resolution No. The KSA’s Government Tenders and Procurement Law also received an important update in June 2023 with the issuance of Resolution No. 25, 27, and 36), and an express emphasis on efficiency and economy (Art.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

Introductory course The School of Applied Research in Public Procurement sought to develop participants’ skills in monitoring, research, policy analysis, and promoting public procurement reforms and open contracting in Central Asia, with a vision to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency in the use of public funds.

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We have released an update in November 2019 on the datasets collected on development projects, public tenders, and contracts for three major donor agencies: the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and EuropeAid.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. Software as a Service (SaaS)-based government e-GP systems can offer cost-effective and efficient alternatives.

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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 81

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

With a mandate to prevent, investigate, and prosecute corruption, one of the Integrity Commission’s core functions is to oversee public procurement. There was huge enthusiasm in the room for developing a user-friendly tool to detect corruption in contracting.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, with our support, the Dominican Republic’s procurement agency monitors all transactions in the country’s electronic procurement system in real-time using 21 automated corruption red flag risk indicators.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 88

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. Largely anchored on the UNCITRAL model law on public procurement , several countries abolished the centralized and inefficient tender boards.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 69

University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

Background By way of background, it is worth saying that NHS commissioning is a peculiar procurement activity resulting from the creation of an NHS internal market in the 1990s with the aim of harnessing market incentives and competition-based governance to improve the efficiency of the English healthcare system (see here ).

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

How to make e-GP systems work A lot of countries in the region have been struggling to digitize their public procurement processes efficiently ( check out our guide to building better systems with advice from reformers in five African countries ). Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 79

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

Efficient Record Management Turning to the second point of the checklist, the panel recalled the importance to have an efficient record management. Although different tools are used to select lawyers (panels, tenders etc), the panel added that gathering recommendations from fellow colleagues remains a safe option.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Following our theoretical framework, we also expect transparency effects to unfold over time with many effects arising through the help of stakeholders – journalists picking up stories based on newly available data, buyers learning about procurement markets or bidder finding new opportunities more efficiently.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 26, 2024

More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190 There is an open call for the EILAR 2024 Young Practitioners and Scholars Essay Competition.

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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, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED].

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. Finally, the Anti-Corruption Agency is proactively supporting the development of civic monitoring and has agreed to cooperate with the civil society coalition to monitor procurement.

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