Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Bogota, Colombia, 4 October 2023 — Colombia’s public procurement market is around $150 billion annually, making it a unique opportunity to boost business growth, especially for small companies. CREDERE operates directly with open data on public contracting to unlock new opportunities for small companies in public procurement.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I am delighted to present to How to Crack a Nut readers an outline of my recently published book Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists and Other Public Procurement Tools: Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements (Hart Publishing, 2023).

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Some of these challenges are made more explicit in our most recent report, “India’s Federal Procurement Data Infrastructure: Observations and Recommendations.” Publish all data in one place (ideally the CPPP website) in machine-readable format (e.g., CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. Spending, taxation, public investment, debt management and financing policies can contribute to transform the behavior of different economic actors. C as possible.

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