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Open Contracting Partnership
OCTOBER 3, 2023
The Scorpene submarine affair and the more recent Littoral Combat Ship scandal centered around mismanagement within defence procurement. Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system.
The Procurement ClassRoom
JUNE 2, 2024
Introduction This article is based on the review of standard bidding documents from several organizations including the World Bank , Millennium Challenge Corporation , the Public Procurement and Concession Commission of the Republic of Liberia , and Public Procurement Authority of Ghana.
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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. Public procurement stands out as the most vulnerable sector to corruption in Indonesia.
Open Contracting Partnership
MAY 23, 2024
Challenge: In Ukraine, a lack of machine-readable data about procurement appeals made it difficult for government suppliers to defend their rights and interests. In 2023, Ukraine awarded 270,000 public contracts through competitive procedures , worth 555 billion UAH ($15.2 of all procurement appeals in Ukraine. billion (US$1.9
Open Contracting Partnership
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.
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. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.
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. CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.
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