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Slovakia’s Open Public Procurement Portal
Author: Matej Kurian, Program Coordinator
‘ The portal has boosted procurement knowledge
Organization: Transparency International Slovakia (Civil Society Organization) Theme: Using ICT to improve procurement systems Country: Slovakia
and the regional drive for transparency ’
SU MMARY Official procurement data was published online in Slovakia only as disaggregated individual
The Open Procurement Portal is entirely automated, with a function which scans new official procurement
documents, effectively preventing any meaningful contract monitoring or evidence-based analysis
information every night, rearranges it into a database
of procurement practices. In a country where 20 percent of public spending is on procurement
and visualizes it for the end-user.
and where surveys find an overwhelming majority of tenders to be corrupt, Transparency International (TI) Slovakia saw the need to create a new, public, accessible procurement database. It developed the Open Procurement Portal, a single-stop website for procurement analysis in Slovakia. The site provides easy and effective tools to browse, filter and visualize procurement data worth more than €23 billion. Providing high-quality data, it has become an indispensable source for evidence-based analysis (such as estimates of the financial impact of mandatory e-auctions). The portal could easily be replicated across the EU, allowing for pan-European monitoring and analysis.
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