Open Public

Procurement:

Research meets Research meets

Policy

Matej Kurian (kurian@transparency.sk)

OGD Camp

Warsaw, October 20, 2011

80/20

• € 8bn (20%) - amount procured last

year AND published officially

• Roughly 80%• Roughly 80% - number of people who

think PP is often or always corrupt

• 1 – nr. of convicted of PP fraud since 2006

http://www.e-vestnik.sk/#EVestnik/Detail/28635

http://bit.ly/qnNBys

Site provided valuable findings …

• 43% - share of state contracts awarded to

single offer in 2010

• 2.3 – average number of firms competing • 2.3 – average number of firms competing

in state PP in 2010

• 1.5 – average number of firms competing

in state PP for IT services in 2010

3

4

5

6

Average number of bids/ time

New Gov’t: E-auctions

0

1

2

BLUE – Wares

RED – Constructions

GREEN - Services

…and influenced public policy

• Government manifesto – “will raise

transparency in PP by making PP Journal

searchable using different criteria”

• PP law amended – “Office of PP will make its

Journal accessible in the structured format

which facilitates automatic data reuse”

• Endorsed use of the e-auctions -

How to hit the sweet spot?

(Data) Activism

Impact

opportunity

ResearchPolicy

Preliminary observations:

• Data for its own sake / Not actionable

• Visualization for its own sake

• Little research built around the data

• No policy implication

Tentative solutions:

• Be very specific about your goals

• Get your team right• Get your team right

• Talk to others

• ???

Thank you

MATEJ KURIAN

kurian@transparency.sk