Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

In 2022, OCP published an impact story about how Indonesia’s authorities have been working with civil society to curb corruption by improving timely oversight of the public procurement system, which spans over 600 decentralized government agencies. Opentender currently features data on more than 4.6

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

billion (~US$23 million) contract to improve traffic light management in Santo Domingo’s capital after multiple irregularities were identified in the procurement process. DGCP trained staff on public procurement, risk management, and supplier due diligence. More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

The app’s comprehensive database of procurement appeals sources data from the Prozorro public procurement system, as well as decisions on complaints made to the Antimonopoly Committee, and investigations by the State Audit Service. It was a challenge that made me start looking towards developing a solution.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

We looked for others who had performed a similar matching, in order to compare and validate our matches, and found the matching performed by ProZorro , the central public procurement system of Ukraine, which was consistent with ours. A summary of the 3-level structure we used for green criteria related to furniture.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 1, 2016

And it may take several years before we develop a system for being more efficient and effective in our work. Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that to quickly achieve proficiency in public procurement management, there are seven things you need to do.

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Public Procurement Procurement Bidding Import 40

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The team developed a three-pronged strategy: talk to MSMEs and build their capacity to bid on contracts; simplify the bidding process for smaller businesses; and use innovative technology to better measure and manage opportunities for small business vendors.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

Importantly, the top three layers are centralised and the European Commission has responsibility (and funding) for developing them, while the bottom data layer is decentralised, with each Member State retaining responsibility for digitalising its public procurement systems and connecting its data sources to the PPDS.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Solution: TI Ukraine created and has maintained the free BI Prozorro procurement analytics module for more than eight years, empowering all stakeholders to analyze data from Ukraine’s public procurement system.

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