View all resources

How to make better public procurement decisions with business intelligence

Ukraine’s Prozorro is a world-class electronic procurement system. The Prozorro and Transparency International Ukraine teams are among the leaders in developing business analytics platforms for public procurement management in Eastern Europe, using historical and transactional data to monitor procurement system performance, devise corrective strategies and measure the impact of their implementation.

Prozorro’s core principle ‘Everyone sees everything,’ ensures access to the procurement data through an open API. Such access to data has allowed the creation of unique analytical tools—both public and professional modules for public procurement analytics.

For this report, we talked to people across government, monitoring institutions, the private sector, and civil society to understand how business intelligence platforms have changed their activities. Find out how Transparency International’s free and professional analytics tools have helped authorities bust “tender trolls” that made bogus complaints as part of extortion schemes or detect tender rigging in fuel deals. Learn how business intelligence has created new opportunities for vendors by qualifying for the government’s central e-catalog or discovering untapped niche markets like supplying Christmas trees to municipal governments. Discover the many strategies used by buyers to save millions through smarter spending and to keep procurement running smoothly during wartime.