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Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Quality Requirements : They describe the quality and specifications of the goods , services , or works required. 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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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities.

Corruption

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement

Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Results: The number of women-led businesses registered in the official state public procurement system increased by 43% from 2021 and 2022 to a total of 158 businesses, winning a total of 47 contracts, up from a mere 7 in 2020.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

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. In addition, price overruns continued to plague procurement outcomes, as well as poor contract execution, manifested through poor quality works and delays.

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In-Depth Analysis of Framework Agreements in Public Sector Procurement

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Working with one supplier under single-supplier systems guarantees constant quality and easier administration. These buyers benefit from structured agreements by gaining access to pre-approved suppliers, which can streamline the procurement process and potentially lead to cost savings.

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Framework Agreement Procurement Supplier Tender

How to make better public procurement decisions with business intelligence: Insights from Ukraine

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. Equally important is communicating in a language that all users understand.

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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The team at B2Gov, based in Argentina and made up of 19 people, offers clients the chance to boost their business capacities in the public procurement market, to understand the competitive dynamics of the market in advance, to conduct performance assessments and devise strategies to succeed in future opportunities.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Public contracts matter, he says: “The government allocates 32% of the country’s budget towards goods, services, and public works, to secure the rights and enhance the quality of life for citizens. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.”

Corruption

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement

Vendors as partners: How Paraguay’s VIGIA provides a community to increase competitiveness and opportunity for SMEs

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. The platform was co-developed by OCP and the business community together with the government.

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Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation

Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

Fortunately, progress has been made in the region and countries are in a position to develop diagnoses, tools, and institutional capacities to promote green procurement. expand access to finance by developing climate finance strategies, building resilient and low-carbon project portfolios, and developing sustainable/green finance instruments.

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Finance Price Sustainability Capacity

Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

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. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved.

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds

How Ukraine’s procurement appeals tool Clarity App promotes fair competition

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. This demonstrates high-quality cooperation between business, the public, and the state.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

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. Second, they sought to leverage Paraguay’s accessible, high quality open contracting data.

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Using AI for green procurement

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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Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

In-Depth Analysis of Framework Agreements in Public Sector Procurement

How to make better public procurement decisions with business intelligence: Insights from Ukraine

B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Vendors as partners: How Paraguay’s VIGIA provides a community to increase competitiveness and opportunity for SMEs

Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How Ukraine’s procurement appeals tool Clarity App promotes fair competition

Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Using AI for green procurement

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