Open Contracting Partnership
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Throughout the pandemic, significant amounts of public funds were disbursed without seeking parliamentary approval, and the procurement process itself became tainted by multiple instances of corruption and cronyism. Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system.
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. We bring open data and open government together to make public contracting fair and effective.
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Open Contracting Partnership
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
There is growing recognition that the public procurement system can be a strong force for policy implementation, helping to tackle major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the region. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever.
Open Contracting Partnership
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. This has since been expanded to an additional 5 MDAs.
Open Contracting Partnership
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. Participating in public contracting represents a massive opportunity for businesses, but one that many fail to seize.
Open Contracting Partnership
AUGUST 28, 2024
Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. There was also a lack of data on the volume and outcome of audits.
Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting
APRIL 15, 2020
In the accompanying Red Flags Explainer , we drew on our experience of building and analysing datasets of government procurement over the past ten years to answer some Frequently Asked Questions about our work, explaining some of the challenges and what can be done to fix or work around them.
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