Open Contracting Partnership

1/ Our Annual Report 2025 is live 📘. Public contracts are where public money becomes real services. Here is what open contracting delivered in 2025. open-contracting.org/annual-report-… Thanks to partners who built this work with us in government, civil society & international institutions.

What does sustainable contracting look like in practice? On 14 May, our #LatAm Director @oahernandezg & @aerostatico_py will share lessons from Paraguay on civic tech, activism & procurement data. Join @‌WorldCC’s free virtual event & session. Register: worldcc.com/Events/Event-I…

Europe’s green procurement ambition has a measurement problem. Most systems track whether a tender was tagged “green” not whether it cut emissions. Our new analysis with @IISD_ELP shows the data to start fixing this already exists. iisd.org/articles/deep-… #OpenData @IISD_news

¡Felicitaciones!

¡Un año de impacto real! 🚀 En 2025, nuestras intervenciones mejoraron el gasto de $17 mil millones, beneficiando directamente a 19 millones de personas.  Ya está disponible nuestro Informe Anual 2025 📘 🔗Consúltalo: open-contracting.org/annual-report-… #contratacionesabiertas

Medicine? In Brazil, procurement data often hides the answer in messy free-text descriptions making medicine price comparison difficult at scale. Our AI blog explores how semantic search can help turn noisy procurement data into usable insight. Read: open-contracting.org/2026/04/30/sem…

3/ The last mile matters too: training with WAJIBU tripled supplier registrations in 5 municipalities and 38 entrepreneurs won contracts. Now scaling across 30 local governments. open-contracting.org/2026/03/12/tra… #PublicProcurement #eGP

2/ Data is live and searchable (plans, tenders, awards, underrepresented suppliers). PPRA analysis shows tendering is 30% faster: 80 days vs 116.

1/ Tanzania’s NeST shows what “locally owned, data-driven” e-procurement can deliver: an end-to-end platform integrating 20 government services, used by 62,000 procuring entities nationwide.

SOCAP Open voting is live (closes April 26). We submitted a session on using public procurement to empower local businesses + communities, drawing on Boston’s Equity in Contracting and Paraguay’s Vigía SME platform. Vote here: socapglobal.com/session-idea/l… #SOCAP26 #PublicProcurement

4/ More strategies: our Open & Sustainable Public Procurement guide: sustainable.open-contracting.org #EarthDay #GreenProcurement #AI #PublicProcurement #GovTech

3/ Example 2: In Assam, India, we worked with partners CivicDataLab to support the state’s Green Budget (US$3B per year). With US$6.79B worth of contracts opened and a new framework for buying green, climate-friendly spending tripled in year one and quadrupled in year two.

1/ Earth Day 🌍 Our governments will need to buy in a fundamentally different way if we want to safeguard our planet. Green procurement is a key area of our work, as highlighted in our Annual Report 2025. Annual Report: open-contracting.org/about/annual-r…

4/ Next up in 2026: human-centered reforms, stronger support around AI, and norms that help innovations scale. #OpenContracting #OpenData #PublicProcurement

3/ New uses include tracking medicine prices (Medicamentos Transparentes, Brazil) and attracting small-business suppliers (City of Portland).

1/ Our Annual Report 2025 is live 📘. Public contracts are where public money becomes real services. Here is what open contracting delivered in 2025. open-contracting.org/annual-report-… Thanks to partners who built this work with us in government, civil society & international institutions.

We've submitted a session proposal at #SOCAP26, October 12-14 in Chicago, to discuss leveraging the power of #publicprocurement to empower local businesses. We'd appreciate your vote for our session! Voting ends April 26! Check it out socapglobal.com/socap-open-202…

Why don’t we have a working digital platform that tracks #ClimateFinance from pledge to project? Our research suggests the tech exists. The challenge is incentives & integration with country systems. We’re sharing our draft findings & requirements here open-contracting.org/2026/04/14/fro…

#ClimateFinance needs “receipts”. The tech to track money from pledge to project to contract exists. What’s missing is incentives and a delivery platform that works with country systems. 👉New blog unpacks our research + requirements: open-contracting.org/2026/04/14/fro…