Open Contracting Partnership
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system. The strategy outlined in the NACP aimed to establish a dedicated public procurement law and revamp existing procurement practices. However, the real challenge lies in translating these principles into effective practices.
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.
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Bestek Procurement
JUNE 14, 2024
Join us for an insightful panel discussion on "A Question of Trust and Cooperation," where we will delve into the crucial role of trust in public procurement systems and the legal frameworks that support them.
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. The second revolution: increasing independence, data collection and participation These limitations led to a subsequent second wave of reforms.
Open Contracting Partnership
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
But when it comes to public procurement, they represent less than 5% of vendors participating in the system in the last 3 years, according to official data. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we learned that entrepreneurs perceived public procurement as closed off to them, both because of legal but also illegal barriers.
Open Contracting Partnership
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Since launching their platform in 2020, Diegues and Blanco have built a set of digital tools and data analytics services that have bridged the gap between more than 250 private sector users and public procurement buyers in six countries across Latin America. According to the World Bank, public contracts account for 15% of global GDP.
Open Contracting Partnership
DECEMBER 22, 2023
They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Fewer than 300 MSMEs participate in a procurement market worth almost US$3 billion annually.
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