Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Instances of favoritism, corruption, and misallocation of resources have raised alarming questions about the integrity of the procurement process. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency. However, the real challenge lies in translating these principles into effective practices.

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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. Unfortunately ,they often have not been adequately integrated into the design of e-GP systems. Inefficiencies, data duplication, and reduced transparency often result.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Results : The Clarity App is building trust among Ukrainian businesses that they can receive a fair decision for procurement appeals and fair competition without discrimination in tenders. Appeals are an important element of any procurement system, as they enable businesses to defend their rights to compete for and win tenders.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Only about 20 percent of the total procurement data is readily available and searchable at the EU level through the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) portal. How the PPDS works The PPDS, as illustrated in Figure 1, offers solutions to integrate data from various sources, including the Publications Office (PO) and member states (MS).

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Written by Isabelle Adam and originally published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. 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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage.

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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. This helps us ensure the integrity of the process,” highlights Uwingeneye.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

This provided transparency for all involved in managing the process in a way that wasn’t possible previously when complaints were transferred manually between agencies by email. First, ICW presents a quantitative analysis of high risk tenders based on Opentender to the Maros’ Inspector (chief auditor).

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Written by Isabelle Adam and published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. 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.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Transparency The government organisation must make the information on the process available to all stakeholders including suppliers, service producers, contractors, and the public. Integrity All tender documents must have clear and dependable information free of bias. ” A tender refers o the actual contract.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To better understand the challenges small businesses face when bidding for public tenders, and complementary to its Lift impact accelerator project, the Open Contracting Partnership engaged in conversations with entrepreneurs, public officials, and civil society actors with a stake in improving the public procurement system.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Standard Bidding Documents , also known as tender documents or solicitation documents , are essential tools in the procurement process. Faulty information in these documents can lead to bids that do not meet the actual needs of the procuring entity , compromising the integrity and effectiveness of the procurement process.

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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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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One could be forgiven for simplifying the goal of procurement to ensuring that public money is well spent , which could be further elaborated (following Schooner 2002 ) to encompass promoting integrity and value for money in the award of public contracts, and acting transparently to facilitate accountability. At first look, s.12(1)

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Written by Elizabeth David-Barrett and originally published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –> accountability transformation. Oh, and big data just means bigger gains, right?

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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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Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

2020 As the project progressed, we recognised that the work LOTI was doing with City Tools was an integral part of Thirty3 and could help shape the procurement process. Adding functionality that let boroughs be more transparent about their IT requirements and existing technology partnerships is useful to both SMEs and other local authorities.

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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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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. While this is an ambitious plan, the need is compelling.

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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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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of the year-long project, PKP Energetyka will implement the modules facilitating the registration of Contracts, e-Catalogs, Tender Management, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and finally, Invoice handling. The key goals are not only the safety or optimization and acceleration of the Procurement processes as such.

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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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Open contracting approach : The city implemented an ambitious, comprehensive reform project to digitize and open up procurement, and integrate its equity and sustainability values into processes. Current, closed, and awarded bids can now be found online, increasing transparency throughout the process.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The LPPO is already exploring new opportunities to apply that data and technology, such as integrating life-cycle costing methodologies in the routine procedures of the e-procurement platform. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria. We tried to meet markets where they were.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

This policy required the inclusion of Indigenous businesses in public opportunities without requiring an overly burdensome and costly tender process. This is all stored within Ivalua to provide customers the auditability and traceability to demonstrate process rigor and transparency. .

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

We can achieve cost confidence by utilizing progressive project delivery models that involve design and construction project partners very early, and by engaging in transparent collaboration. Collective agreements offer some predictability, but lump sum tendered bids often must guess the future and buffer to avoid loss.

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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.

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