Open Contracting Partnership

Our 2023 Annual Report is here! Dive in for the latest stories of transformational change across 11 countries showing that #publicprocurement can be accountable, inclusive and sustainable: from supporting green procurement in Lithuania 🇱🇹 to better flood defenses in Assam, India 🇮🇳, fostering economic inclusion in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, and strengthening the reconstruction in Ukraine 🇺🇦 through DREAM (tag account), our efforts have led to real-world change.  2023 also marked the end of our last five-year strategy. We estimate that the reforms we supported positively impacted 209 million lives and US$116 billion dollars of public spending. We are proud of all we achieved together in 2023 as #TeamOCP, alongside our amazing #opencontracting community that continues to engage, fund, support, and inspire us. Thank you!  This year, we embark on our journey towards strategy 2030 with the goal of enabling one billion people to live in more equitable, prosperous and sustainable communities by improving US$2 trillion in public procurement spending. Together, we can achieve this! We invite you to read all about open contracting in 2023 in our Annual Report:

"Public spending through procurement is an important lever for promoting the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of nature. By encouraging and incentivizing suppliers to deliver nature-positive outcomes, including through net-positive requirements, as part of their contracts, governments can encourage innovation while creating new markets for sustainable products and services and for nature-based solutions." Here are some use cases and resources for implementing #SustainableProcurement: https://lnkd.in/eNSHRGkW

Full paper below. The headlines are that e-GP is one of the best investments you can make to achieve the #SDGs. "Benefit-cost ratio of implementing an e-GP system in the average low-income country ranges from 8 to 58, and is 142 to 473 for a lower middle-income country". Full paper is here: https://lnkd.in/e9JNeN6V

Did you know that we provide more than just OCDS? We also maintain various tools that enable users and publishers to access OCDS data easily, convert it between JSON and CSV, or review data quality. Explore some of our tools: 🟢 Data Registry: Find and download public procurement datasets from over 50 publishers in OCDS format https://lnkd.in/epkMNWa3 🟢 Kingfisher: Collect, pre-process, summarize, and query OCDS data https://lnkd.in/eHN4CAhV 🟢 Data Review Tool: Report structural errors in OCDS data and check your conformance to the standard https://lnkd.in/egXzDXjh 🟢 Flatten Tool: Transform JSON data to tabular formats, and vice versa https://lnkd.in/ehverAm8 Learn more about using OCDS data and all the tools available here: https://lnkd.in/eXrDG2Yu #OpenContracting #OpenData #DataUse

It's been such a privilege working with CivicDataLab Gaurav G. Kabeer Arora Rakhi Kashyap Jeeno George, PhD Nupura Gawde Shreya Agrawal and all CDL team on this important topic 💓 With thanks to Deepali Khanna Eric Arndt and The Rockefeller Foundation for their incredible suppport which is helping us scale to additional states 💖 Watch this space, more coming soon 🙌

Thank you to Center for Public Sector AI, The Aspen Institute, and U.S. Digital Response for bringing together such a great group of folks from HHS and the field to explore how emerging technologies might help tackle some of our most sticky government service challenges! To really get the most benefits from this new tech, governments must radically overhaul how they buy things. That's why I was excited to speak about the role of procurement in this conversation on behalf of Open Contracting Partnership, together with fellow panelist Traci Walker, Executive Director at Digital Services Coalition. Our breakout panel had a full house and a lively conversation, and it was an honor to spot GSA's Administrator, Robin Carnahan, in the room. 🎊

Residents of Assam, India, face immense hardship during the monsoon season due to flooding. Farms, livestock, and properties are destroyed, people are trapped in their homes without basic supplies, many have to wade through waist-deep water, and some sustain injuries. To help address this issue, we are supporting CivicDataLab (CDL), which is collaborating with the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) to enhance the protection of vulnerable communities from extreme weather events through intelligent, data-driven disaster management. By using a sophisticated data model, authorities can pinpoint the most critical areas in the state in need of investment, rating each district for flood proneness, preparedness, and losses. Last year, our efforts benefited about 6.5 million people. Learn more about this initiative: https://lnkd.in/ebgH6mzR #OpenContracting #Assam #India #Flooding #DisasterManagement #DataModel

According to the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a full e-government procurement system is a top 10 investment for a country to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, one-third of countries do not have one in place. Slow, paper-based procurement processes often hinder effective procurement of e-GP systems. We can help you implement solutions with well-defined goals, user-centered teams, and a clear change management process. ⭐️ For Africa-specific advice, check out this guide: https://lnkd.in/dKrfdVnH ⭐️ For our full offer, learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dFeQhHe3 #OpenContracting #PublicProcurement #eGP #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDGs #Procurement #OpenGov #Digitization

🔴 A red light for corruption: How the 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic's Dirección General de Contrataciones Públicas is going beyond transparency to use open data, better processes and collaboration with civil society to strengthen institutions and fight corruption in the island. Read here🔗 https://lnkd.in/eDXP_jzZ #opendata #corruption #DominicanRepublic #anticorruption

For anyone interested in #GreenProcurement 👇 Our friends at the George Washington University Law School Government Procurement Law Program are having this event that may interest you 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eSdR5Srz