Deep Dives
Nepal is buying ten million biometric licences without a tender
The government went back to IN Groupe at the 2019 price, invoking the sole-supplier clause. In our record of 3,495…
The Dominican Republic counts every bid and names almost no winners
A bid count appears on 99% of notices and a value on 100% — but of 991 awards in the…
Three Andean countries, three completely different records
Colombia states a value on 98% of notices, Chile on 63%, Peru on 23%. They are neighbours running comparable procurement…
South Africa publishes what it buys and almost never what it costs
A value appears on 1% of recent South African notices. Eskom and Johannesburg Water lead the record by volume, and…
In Lithuania, one tender in three has no competition at all
Of 2,311 Lithuanian notices with a recorded bidder count this year, 833 drew exactly one bid. At Vilnius University the…
The best data on procurement competition is not in Europe
Ghana, Liberia, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic record how many suppliers bid on nearly every notice. Most of the European…
Germany records the number of bids on every tender. 84% of them say zero
The field is filled on essentially every German notice. Of 996 sampled, 838 hold a zero — a placeholder for…
Thirty-one currencies in one month of tenders, and no exchange rate anywhere
A single month of notices carries euros, dollars, Taiwanese dollars, Peruvian soles and Bhutanese ngultrum — stored as raw numbers…