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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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Bidding 88

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. These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 67

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.

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Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

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. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency.

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Public Procurement Procurement Corruption Transparency 120

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“Building institutional processes and strengthening controls will always make some people uncomfortable when it’s easier for them to operate in a messy environment and ‘enjoy’ public resources illegally,” he says. Sometimes raising a red flag can mean giving a green light to a more transparent and fairer process that benefits all.

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Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 75

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. 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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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

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. For us, this is an opportunity to reasonably defend our position during appeals.

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