Tag: Competition
French Senate Mandates SNCF to Sell Competitors’ Tickets
In April, the French Senate approved a law requiring SNCF to sell tickets for foreign companies like Trenitalia and Renfe,…
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…
Nearly half of Lithuania’s measured tenders drew one bid this summer
The single-bid share ran at 44.5% across June and July, up from 36.0% for the year — and Lithuania is…
384 suppliers won their first contract this summer. Most won only one
Of 1,500 Baltic awards since June, 384 went to names that had not appeared all year. The busiest newcomer took…
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…
One supplier won 72 of this agency’s 176 contracts
At Lithuania's food and veterinary risk assessment institute, Bioeksma has taken 41% of every award this year. The concentration index…
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…