Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 11, 2025

In a previous post , we looked at Indonesia Corruption Watch s method for monitoring corruption risks in procurement. In 2016, the local government issued a continued construction tender with an estimated price of Rp. In 2018, there was another tender for Rp. 19 billion). The budget tended to increase over time.

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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.

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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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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 29, 2023

After acquiring an indirect majority control over the company, Mr. Schütz appeared in a video leak of bribery acts (known as the “Vladivideos” leak, one of the most infamous corruption scandals of Peruvian history). On 1 December 2022, the Tribunal in the Panamericana Television S.A

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

With today's announcement of his resignation on the back of a corruption probe, the time of Antonio Costa as Portuguese Prime-Minister reached its end. When you deactivate - or strategically deviate from - EU procurement rules, corruption follows. But fashionably late it was nonetheless. I shall come back to this mantra further down.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2021

The FCDO-funded (formerly DFID) project “ Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting ” releases the contracting datasets collected from national public procurement portals in 10 low and middle income countries: Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Paraguay, Uganda and Uruguay. tax haven registration).

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Using product demonstrations alongside written tenders will help buyers get a proper appreciation of solutions being offered by suppliers. On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here).

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These and other constraints under the model law are commendable anti-corruption measures, but may make it more difficult to accommodate emerging “green procurement” approaches. Planning The first strategy looks to procurement planning. Brazil has used this strategy aggressively in its efforts to implement “green procurement,” and the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

” Verónica Valle, Director, ChileCompra Transparency and access to information In late 2023, ChileCompra introduced a campaign called “Stop Corruption”, to promote the Observatory’s channels for citizens to submit confidential complaints. The team’s monitoring work varies depending on the type of contracting process.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Businesses must understand the key differences between the public and private procurement methods, regulations, and goals when c onsidering tender opportunities in either sector. Furthermore, private businesses have more flexibility in pursuing informal tendering procedures or direct negotiation with suppliers.

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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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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

By leveraging blockchain’s capabilities, these entities can significantly mitigate corruption risks, streamline operations, and foster a more transparent procurement environment. Integrity Provides an immutable record, reducing fraud and corruption.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

A transparent approach lowers procurement risk, prevents corruption, and fosters confidence between suppliers and public sector organisations. How Transparency is Ensured in Procurement Transparency is achieved through open contract notices, public tenders, and clear evaluation criteria.

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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. Public procurement covers $13 trillion of spending every year, one in every three dollars spent by our governments.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

Key elements of the proposal In a nutshell, the proposal seeks to debunk tendering as the sole (or rather, primary, for there are exceptions in reg.32 None of this is conducive to the increased levels of legal certainty and reduction in red tape and dispute risk that the proposal sets to unlock.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Use unique standardised IDs for all tender announcements and contract-award notices to ensure that they can be linked. Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g., Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. ” “We are not all at the same pace of development when it comes to public procurement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

An article published in Kazakhstan by Gulbarshyn Karabalina and Svetlana Garkusha prompted the social services department of the Mangystau Region to use a competitive tender for the first time in years. ” “Monitoring of public procurement is one of the main tools in the fight against corruption.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. Download Explainer For example, if we have all the call for tenders but cannot easily match them with contract awards, this means we cannot construct key red flags.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Anti-corruption policies further reinforce integrity in procurement, safeguarding public funds and fostering trust in government processes. Public procurement these days is not just about acquiring goods and public services at low costs. Social value is a transformative approach shaping how public contracts are awarded and executed.

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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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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For years, the benefits of transparency as a policy tool to increase accountability and counter corruption have been lauded. Differing leadership approaches The two leaderships have quite different approaches to anti-corruption overall. That being said, many people lament a lack of real action and the systemic nature of corruption.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

As governments and organizations recognize the benefits of transparency, greater openness, and accountability in public procurement, the OCDS ensures that all procurement-related information, from tender notices to contract awards, is readily accessible to the public and potential bidders.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2024

Corruption allegations in arbitration proceedings relating to Peru remain very common. Peru , where the tribunal dismissed Peru’s ratrionae materiae objection based on corruption allegations. Fernandez Arroyo, made it appear to be “one of the most restrictive” instruments. On July 26, 2023, the tribunal in Santamarta v.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In Slovakia, the data collection process is prone to error due to the several Call for tenders and Contract award publication form types that were also changed throughout the year (i.e. On the one hand, identifying causal links based on quasi-experimental settings has several prerequisites.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Regulatory Non-Compliance If acontracting authority considersthat a supplier has been unable to adhere to regulatory requirementssuch as failing to declare conflicts of interest or breaking anti-corruption lawsthetermination ground applies. This bold approach allows for early intervention and may avoid the need for termination.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

SANESSOL and the Municipality jointly filed for arbitration before the Chamber of Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration CIESP/FIESP (“CAM CIESP/FIESP”). This is a particularly relevant aspect of the dispute that appears to have been neglected by the lower instance courts.

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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. A closer look at the PPDS and the significant roadblocks towards its full implementation will shed further light on this issue. What is the PPDS?

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

VIktor Nestulia Head of DREAM Project Office This led to the formation of the RISE Ukraine Coalition, which at its inception united more than 20 Ukrainian organizations working on open government and anti-corruption reform. Delivering the DREAM With the launch of the Project Office, DREAM enters its next phase.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 7, 2024

Questions ranging from how the situation may evolve into an ISDS case, whether it is possible to deal with the potential dispute inhouse or how to establish the tender procedure for outside counsel require immediate attention by the state. A quick analysis of the situation is therefore warranted.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 1, 2024

a Chilean telecommunications company owned by the private investment fund Novator Partners (“ Wom “), won a public tender for the deployment of 5G technology in Chile. Background to the Dispute In 2021, Wom S.A., As security, Wom issued several on-demand performance bonds totalling approximately USD 50 million.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

However, Tesseract contended in the alternative that any damages should be reduced by operation of proportionate liability statutes under the law of South Australia ( here and here ), by reference to Pascale’s contributory negligence brought about by the alleged negligence of a third party in assisting Pascale to prepare its tender.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the court’s view, a claim for payment was proper only as to currency that had the force of legal tender—a status exclusively bestowed in Korea on notes issued by the Bank of Korea under Articles 47 and 48 of the Bank of Korea Act. 23-CV-1346 (JSR), 2023 WL 4858299 (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2023). ( 2020Do9789 dated 16 December 2021.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Arbitration clauses are suited to individual investments, included by the host State in tenders or contracts, and can be readjusted or negotiated later. Thousands have gathered across Europe to protest against investment treaties like CAFTA , TTIP , CETA , and NAFTA , repelling their arbitration clauses. There are reasons why.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Arbitration clauses are suited to individual investments, included by the host State in tenders or contracts, and can be readjusted or negotiated later. Thousands have gathered across Europe to protest against investment treaties like CAFTA , TTIP , CETA , and NAFTA , repelling their arbitration clauses. There are reasons why.

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