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.

Public Procurement 80

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

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. This is all the more urgent when we consider the huge scale up that we need in green financing to achieve our net zero goals.

Procurement 89

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

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.

Accountability 52

Accountability E-procurement Transparency Capacity 52

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Current, closed, and awarded bids can now be found online, increasing transparency throughout the process. The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Now current, closed, and awarded bids can be looked up online, increasing transparency throughout the process.

Procurement 52

Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2024

Peru (where the claimant argued that the tender of the project, which was the subject of the dispute, had been rigged as part of a corruption scheme involving high ranking officials in the government), this year, Julio Olortegui and Nennele Rivadeneira reported on the decision in Panamericana Television S.A

Corruption 52

Corruption Telecommunication Tender Insurance 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria. Klaipeda is far from the only public agency in Lithuania using innovative approaches to procurement to make its city greener and healthier. We tried to meet markets where they were.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

transparency for image manipulation), or substantial requirements (e.g. On a (trite) humoristic note: a first idea to slow any task down would be to leave its implementation to a cumbersome public tender procedure. Giuseppe Bitti Giuseppe Bitti is a Procurement Expert in the Directorate Finance of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Public Procurement 59

Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While the e-procurement system doesn’t include the quasi-governmental sector and sovereign wealth fund (which aren’t governed by the public procurement law) it provides full transparency on the general procurement market which accounts for at least a third of Kazakhstan’s public spending. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

Procurement 120

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

Yukon Government has used bid bonding as a risk mitigation tool on many procurements, particularly on construction-related tenders. Could a local indigenous finance institution step into the role of a surety company and provide the bonding requirements to the local business community? Could we explore ideas such as cash securities?

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Collaboration Ethics 52

The Procurement School

MARCH 27, 2025

If it is material or product, and I only want one evaluation criteria to be used, which is the lowest bidder, I issue a Request for Quote (RFQ) or Request for Tender (RFT). Team members should include procurement, finance, legal, and subject matter experts. Here is how I determine the right one. The latter saves you money.

Procurement 52

Procurement Contract Public Procurement Supplier 52