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Red flags for integrity: Giving the green light to open data solutions

The guide has been updated with our the following new and improved version: Red Flags in Public Procurement. A guide to using data to detect and mitigate risks.


This guide was OCP’s first resource on how to use open data in public procurement to identify corruption risks throughout the procurement process from planning to implementation. It provided a starting point for actionable and approachable steps that practitioners from across the globe, from researchers to procurement agencies to fellow data dorks, could take to begin analyzing their procurement data through the lens of integrity. It was accompanied by the
Red Flags to OCDS Mapping providing a general schema that maps red flag indicators to the Open Contracting Data Standard and each of the procurement phases.