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. In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a. open contracting. But what do these commitments look like in reality?

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The guidance also indicates that ‘ Greater transparency of procurement data will make it easier to see what approaches have been successful and encourage use of those approaches more widely across the public sector.’ Therefore, that greater investment in expertise needs to be coupled with a culture change. 94 PA 2023). 48 and 46 PCR 2015).

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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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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. Transparency, equity, and efficient use of public money are all highly valued.

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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. Transparency on legal and regulatory frameworks To make e-GP systems work effectively, it’s essential to have supportive legislative arrangements in place.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

ChileCompra has not only established a formal channel for bidders and citizens to report questionable contracts to authorities for the first time, it has also published the Observatory’s investigation reports and statistics on complaints from the public, making oversight of the procurement system fully transparent. “[In Of these, US$19.5

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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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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. Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g.,

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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. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –> accountability transformation.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2023

The program holds valuable lessons for others working to empower contracting monitors with different skills and backgrounds to work closely together to foster transparency and better procurement practices in their regions. It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We set up Open Contracting Partnership to be bold: we aren’t after just a bit more transparency of public contracts, we want to transform procurement to meet the urgent needs of our time. Our world runs on public contracts. Public procurement covers $13 trillion of spending every year, one in every three dollars spent by our governments.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Transparent criteria for evaluating social value proposals allow for fair competition among suppliers while keeping them liable for their commitments. Anti-corruption policies further reinforce integrity in procurement, safeguarding public funds and fostering trust in government processes.

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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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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.

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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.

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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. Following the decision reported last year in Bacilio v.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. This is not only a transparency portal, it’s a coordination portal, changing the power dynamics of how reconstruction is done.

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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 Other than compliance with the above key criteria, the regime would primarily only impose transparency (and standstill) obligations on NHS commissioners (see part 8 of the proposal).

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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. Transparency is the general rule in all arbitrations with state parties. Contrastingly, BRAMIA allows some state and social control over dispute proceedings.

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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. Transparency is the general rule in all arbitrations with state parties. Contrastingly, BRAMIA allows some state and social control over dispute proceedings.

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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. Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of.

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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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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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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

These barriers should be dealt with if the aim is to guarantee that public funds are expended in a transparent, lawful, and efficient manner. For instance, a lack of clear, coherent tendering procedures or regulatory violations in the tender advertisement may affect the execution of government projects.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Rwanda’s Umucyo system (meaning “transparency” in Kinyarwanda) is recognized as one of the most successful e-government procurement projects in Africa. This allows users to trace procedures across the planning, tender, award and contracting stages of the procurement cycle and to conduct system-wide analysis.

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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. In 2017 I voiced significant concerns about the creation of a new non-transparent procedure to partially replace direct awards. I shall come back to this mantra further down.

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