Public Procurement, Public Procurement System and Quality

Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

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.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Bidding Procurement Bidder

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

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The professional ProBI module is a report-building tool that allows advanced Qlik users to create and save their own selections and customize the appearance of reports based on all available parameters in the Prozorro procurement system.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Buyers

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. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency

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

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.

E-procurement

E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Bidding

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

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. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities.

Corruption

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement

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

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process.

Corruption

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement

B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

Data

Data Public Procurement Tender Price

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. They also help maintain the private sector’s trust in public procurement.

Procurement

Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement

In-Depth Analysis of Framework Agreements in Public Sector Procurement

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tracker Intelligence provides businesses with the tools to find the right public procurement frameworks , and the insight to help suppliers win these valuable contracts. Working with one supplier under single-supplier systems guarantees constant quality and easier administration.

Framework Agreement

Framework Agreement Procurement Supplier Tender

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.

Tender

Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation

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. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

Procurement

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder

Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this post as part of our series exploring the impact of AI on public procurement , we’ll outline our approach and lessons learned. But the EU’s procurement notices use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), not these product groups, so we had to match the product groups to CPV codes (see our spreadsheet ).

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics

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 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds

Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

Opportunity #4: Green Procurement Public procurement accounts for about 20 percent of total government spending in the region, so the contribution of green procurement policies and management to commitments under the Paris Agreement is potentially high.

Finance

Finance Price Sustainability Capacity

Public Procurement Central

Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

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

The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

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

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

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

B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

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

In-Depth Analysis of Framework Agreements in Public Sector Procurement

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

Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Using AI for green procurement

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

Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

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