Zuzana DančíkováVienna, December 1st 2015

OFFICIAL DATA ON INDIVIDUAL TENDERS

AVAILABLE IN GOOD QUALITY

Source: http://www2.uvo.gov.sk/

• In 2014, 6 thousand individual tender award notices published

• Impossible to collect information & analyze manually

INDIVIDUAL VS. AGGREGATE PROCUREMENT

DATA

Source: http://www2.uvo.gov.sk/ Source: http://www.tender.sme.sk/en

COMPILING AND PRESENTING AGGREGATE

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT DATA

• Daily automatic downloads of tender award notices from the government Office for Public Procurement

• Automatic collection of predefined information from downloaded notices

• Automatic republication of collected data in a user-friendly way

COMPILING AND PRESENTING AGGREGATE

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT DATA II

Source: http://www.tender.sme.sk/en

TI SLOVAKIA APPROACH TO WORK WITH

PROCUREMENT DATA

WORKING WITH PROCUREMENT DATA

Pressure on improving efficiency of public spending

through procurement by:

1. Analyses of aggregate data/ looking for trends

2. Monitoring individual cases/ investigating red flags

3. Benchmarking case studies of selected items

OPEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PORTAL ALLOWS FOR

• DOWNLOADING AGGREGATE DATA IN CSV FORMAT

• ANALYSES

ANALYZING AGGREGATE DATA

Research questions: does public procurement in

a particular sector (e.g.healthcare) require special

oversight?

• Analyses of all hospital procurement (2009-

2012, 2012-2014)

• Worth almost 1,4 billion EUR

ANALYSIS OF HOSPITAL PROCUREMENT IN

2009 - 2014

Source: TI Slovakia - INEKO

ANALYSIS OF HOSPITAL PROCUREMENT IN

2009 - 2014

Source: TI Slovakia - INEKO

If two bids were put in in all single-bid tenders, 19 million EUR

could be saved annually.

MONITORING INDIVIDUAL TENDERS

4 Hospital Catering Tenders

81 mil. EUR

• 2 successful bidders (Dora Gastro

& Hospital Catering Solutions)

with no/little experience in field of

experienced bidders

• bidders connected, though

formally competitors

• unusually large tenders

• overpriced

MONITORING INDIVIDUAL TENDERS

Source: TI Slovakia - INEKO

Red flags appeared in aggregate data: unusually successful company that was

founded only recently, unusually large tenders

BENCHMARKING CASE STUDIES

Source: TI Slovakia, hospitals

• Medical equipment tenders

widely considered overpriced

• Benchmarking case study of

CT scanners bought in

Slovakia (2008-2012)

• Identified through Open

Public Procurement portal

• Tenders in Czech Republic

used for benchmarking

• 4 major producers but only 1

bid in 63 % of tenders

• Price differences of up to 100

% for same product

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