In 2015, Montreal took two significant steps towards greater transparency: it opened up a large portion of its contractual data and launched Vue sur les contrats, a visualization tool that allows users to dive deep into this information. This initiative demonstrated the the benefits of standardizing data, but it also highlighted the challenges associated with data quality and design choices that are inherent to such projects.
Blog by OCP, HIVOS and UNDP from November 2018 providing an short overview or open contracting initiatives across Asia and the Pacific.
“From Australia to Thailand, more countries are committing to open up their public contracting and procurement processes. Some reformers are still very new to the concept and building their knowledge, others have started to move ahead. We see a lot of promise for progress and concrete plans.”
A blog by the Open Contracting Partnership describing the implementation of open contracting in Nigeria and the role of social accountability mechanisms.
Covid-19 has created conditions in which corruption in health procurement can flourish. Open contracting would bring this notoriously opaque process into the light.
TI HI’s blog (originally published on Devex) outlines the links between Covid-19 and procurement corruption and highlights the importance of implementing open contracting to counteract these corruption risks.