The Open Contracting Innovation Challenge

The Open Contracting Innovation Challenge

- The grand winner

Announced 14th June, 2017

Telus

- Six finalists

Announced 14th June, 2017

Benchmarking of contracting authorities

Based on transparency, competition and procurement results create a periodic ranking of public buyers.

Contratobook

Spaceshiplabs

We propose using machine learning to detect and flag potential contracts and contractors that may be involved in corruption scandals.

digitaltwins.info

AIAEU (iControl club, TK 185 UAC)

Create digital twin of OpenContracting Item.Description on basis of Open Catalogs and Codelists according to ISA95, AutomationML standards

Joined up data: Linked, useable procurement data

We will publish as much open, linked procurement data as we possibly can to improve usability for both government and business users.

OCDSearch

Open-source OCDS search engine, embeddable w/o programming to any web-site or app. Make use of open data, it is easy!

Telus

Sinar Project

Providing accountable public officials, interests of PEPs & conflicts of interest from joined up data of OCData, OpenOwnership & Popit PEPs

- Government innovation winner

Announced 14th June, 2017

NOCOPO (www.nigeriaoc.org)

BUREAU OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

NOCOPO is about making public procurement deliver good governance to citizens through stakeholders engagement with procurement information

- All entrants

Submitted by 2nd June, 2017

Discretion overcoming at the implementation stage.

NGO "CIVIL INITIATIVE" ANTI-CORRUPTION MONITOR"

To boost efficiency by implementing policies at the implementation stage. Lack of that ones induce injustice, corruption, quality problems.

Reaching More Through Civic Technology

Evidence And Methods Lab

We look to work with government to package data on public contracts in infographics for sharing with the public through online media.

Investigating Contracts: A Blueprint

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

A blueprint that combines data, innovation, and investigative journalism for anti-corruption checks in government contracts

E-TenderSystem

Paperless process for tender submission.Making use of open data by relying on access to existing databases and automated validation.

Benchmarking of contracting authorities

Based on transparency, competition and procurement results create a periodic ranking of public buyers.

Operação Serenata de Amor

Data Science Brigade

🕵 Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration

WEMIS

Kelvin Mihingo Ng'ang'a

WEMIS is a web portal application, that allows the public at the Kenyan wards participate in real time budget making and monitoring process.

Blockchain tech for improving public procurements

General Directorate for Institutional Quality GCBA

The idea is to develop a prototype of blockchain technology linked to smart contracts for small-sized public procurement contracts.

Procurement in Indian Railways through Data Mining

PON SIVALINGAM IRSS INDIAN RAILWAYS

Each stakeholder working in the PP network to prioritize daily productive functions performed towards achieving the organisation objectives

AlgoTender

Scarlet Tech

An app that references companies which are eligible for acquiring a tender from the government by avoiding corruption.

Online Data Management

Nyiko Chauke

My idea is to online web service which manages all the data, on the back end there will EDQ processes which cleans, analyse data.

Monitoring of Unfair Public Procurement

NGO Foundation of BR Development

Reducing corruption component in technical requirements to public procurement subjects, which are automatically tracked in system Prozorro

A Shared Past Performance Database

The Lexington Group

A repository of evaluations and statistical data on businesses' past contract performances, shared among state & local governments.

Contratobook

Spaceshiplabs

We propose using machine learning to detect and flag potential contracts and contractors that may be involved in corruption scandals.

Compras públicas para ciudadanos y proveedores

Observatorio del Gasto Fiscal en Chile

Develop a web of free access, that shows anomalies or market opportunities, with the aim to improve efficiency and integrity of the system.

intelliTender

intelliTender is a machine learning powered platform that facilitates the advertising, awarding and monitoring of government tender.

digitaltwins.info

AIAEU (iControl club, TK 185 UAC)

Create digital twin of OpenContracting Item.Description on basis of Open Catalogs and Codelists according to ISA95, AutomationML standards

Tender-Forest

Cornic studio

A twitter board that queries available tender ,tailor tenders to DM by tender hunters and post in RT.hooked to a webapp to list as timeline.

Government of Canada Spending

YOWCivicTech

Cleaning and displaying #OpenData spending within Government of Canada to make expenditures transparent to non-accountants

Public Contracts for Women Business Owners

The project will map out public offers of services/goods that could be provided by women business-owners from Cali, Colombia.

Benchmarking NHS procurement data against the OCDS

Transparency International UK (TI-UK).

Comparing procurement disclosures across the NHS against the Open Contracting Data Standard to benchmark progress and incentivise change.

Unified e-portal for Members of the World Trade Or

Prozorro Team

We want to enhance the values and the transparency of the GPA by simplifying access to information and access to public procurement markets.

Ideales Contratos Publicos

Ideales Soluciones Sociales

We will create a database that is initially fed with all contracts that have been returned, disqualified, due to their irregularity, damage

Project Sunflower

Sharon Khalo

Create Open Source system to capture, on a centralised DB, tender award contract details using OCDS and making an API available for everyone

Tenderio

PEDAL Consulting, s.r.o.

Tenderio combines the world’s number 1 search engine for public tenders and a pan-European network of most successful bid writers.

Open inspection

Maskey Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd

Mass inventory analytics with like-wise contract inspection that gives us pre-determined report based on existing data.

Angry Taxpayers

Public Outcry Team: making open data work

Our team proposes to create a mobile app which could fetch localized data on public procurement from open sources and display them.

Measuring Corruption Risk in Brazilian Cities

FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School - FGV Direito RIO

A data-driven dashboard for increasing the capacity of the Public Ministry identifying corruption risk in municipal public procurement

PYMEO

Argonautas & Hackity Social Design

PYMEO is a website where you can be informed of the purchases that the public administrations want to make in the next few days.

QuiénEsQuién.Wiki

Open, analyze, publish and report the Mexican Federal Government contracts and create a corruption index for the Latin American region

EduTrack

EduTrack manages and monitors the turnkey procurement process in the education sector.

Joined up data: Linked, useable procurement data

We will publish as much open, linked procurement data as we possibly can to improve usability for both government and business users.

OCDSearch

Open-source OCDS search engine, embeddable w/o programming to any web-site or app. Make use of open data, it is easy!

Portal for Transparent PPP Projects (P4T4)

Jose Solomon Cortez

An accessible and transparent procurement and implementation monitoring platform for private-public partnership projects

Value for Money & Health

Public procurement partnership NGO

How to measure the efficiency & How to assure the efficacy of procured medicines? Monitor trace & build Joint responsibility!

Monitoring Artificial Division of Contracts

Levon Hovsepyan

Artificial division of contracts to reach lower monetary threshold and skip tendering is a big problem. CONTRALTO Monitoring Tool solves it.

Two Pence (lit. Trigrašis) (provisional)

“Transparency International” Lithuanian Chapter

An online platform aimed to help residents of Vilnius learn more about the municipal public services, price rates and operating providers.

Intercom

Intercom applies simple technology with easy access to establishing communication channels between public managers and the population.

MUNICIPIOS TRANSPARENTES

DATOS CONCEPCIÓN

Plataforma de Transparencia de Gasto y Contrataciones d Municipios + visualizaciones y filtros para que ciudadanos controlen + engage cívico

Vigilant Screen

Real-time screening and monitoring of vendors against state level and local contractor disbarments and exclusions.

Zamówienia 2.0

ZP20 Piotr Markowski

Online public procurement platform with live Irregularities Risk Barometer, tools, and reports for business, government, and NGOs

e-Ntegriti - One Click to Transparency

Sinergi Consultants

Data-driven public oversight tools to allow any citizen to be one click away from supervising and demanding changes in public procurement.

Smart Case

The objective of the project is to maintain data in the Police industry with the system that is user friendly and that review data integrity

Pachena Mobi-Tender

Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association

Real-time mobile application that shares all Government tenders and allows reporting tendering frauds to social media and citizen journalist

OnTrack

Thinking Machines Data Science

OnTrack is a dashboard plus a matching algorithm that enables accountability by breaking data silos between budgeting and procurement.

African Data Initiative

Consortium of African Maths Initiative and GTI

Open software tools to enable people, organisations and governments to unlock information from contracting data using the OCDS

Telus

Sinar Project

Providing accountable public officials, interests of PEPs & conflicts of interest from joined up data of OCData, OpenOwnership & Popit PEPs

Collaborative Open data Investigation

Data Science Indonesia (DSI)

Collaboration between DSI, Media & related org. utilize national & subnational financial audit data in term of transparency of govt spending

procurement of work construction of Region farms

Ministry of Agriculture, irrigation and livestock

this project is very important for agriculture and irrigation system by doing this project the we can support the farmer to earn moor result

Expertise of outcomes becomes important

NGO "CIVIL INITIATIVE" ANTI-CORRUPTION MONITOR"

Monitoring of public procurement should become easy and diverse as much. All relevant facets of the monitoring should be covered.

MobileMonitor

Centre for Open Data Research

MobileMonitor gives everyone access to OCDS data of public projects on their mobile phones using geolocation info. We're all monitors now!

Open Audit

Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI)

Open Audit is a tech tool to simplify audit data of public spending in Nigeria for citizens' engagement & improved service delivery.

Calauit Safari System

CSS SPU Palawan Philippines

Calauit Safari System is a platform that automates procurement planning enabling massive demand aggregation and procurement efficiency‬.

UsingJuridical Data in public procurement in Nepal

Paramount Legal Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd.

Use of Reviewer approach (juridical data) to strengthen the integrity and effectiveness of public procurement in Nepal.

Transparency in the contract award in Nigeria

Centre for Social Justice

The idea is to shine a light on all procurement processes using data because award of contract in Nigeria is shrouded in secrecy.

Cloud open marketplace

Create a cloud, open source and marketplace software ecosystems that allow government, suppliers, citizens access to the contracting process

¿A quién le compra la Ciudad de México?

Gobierno Fácil

Investigar quiénes son los dueños de las 10 empresas que han celebrado los contratos de mayor monto con la Secretaría de Finanzas capitalina

Hackaton for Usability

School of Government, Universidad de los Andes

A multi-actor, three-stage intervention, to prompt the use of open data among users with high potential but little knowledge of uses

NOCOPO (www.nigeriaoc.org)

BUREAU OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

NOCOPO is about making public procurement deliver good governance to citizens through stakeholders engagement with procurement information

Contrataciones abiertas Mx

Gobierno Fácil

Crear un sistema de código abierto que facilite la captura y visualización de contratos de administraciones públicas bajo el OCDS

DRCONGO Gov Open Contract

DRCongo Open Data Initiative

We develop an interactive web/mobile data visualization tool allowing citizens to analyze, and monitor how government buys goods & services.

OC Analytics

OC Analytics is on a mission to democratize public contracting data and make it more useful for global-scale civic engagement.

CrossTract

Ben Minerds (PuZZleDucK)

By converting State, Council and Federal data for Victoria into OCDS, CrossTract combines the data into a unique and accessible WoG picture

Apply For Tender

Scarlet Tech

Tender Application to limit corruption in the government sector for fair tender application where AI is used to select candidate for tender.

CrowdTrack

A platform that alert locals of awarded contracts in their locality & give tools to monitor & report on contracts' progress via social media

Cabrane.com, keep an eye on the site

Tunisian Association of Public Auditors

An open and interactive E-platform for public infrastrucure projects to promote transparency and civil participation.

Linking spending and contracting data in Mexico.

Under Ministry of Expenditures/Fiscal Transparency

Linking contracting data with spending and performance information, including public service, investments and subsidies delivery.

CompraTwitt

Ethos, laboratorio de Políticas Públicas

Bot de Twitter que conecta con CompraNet para publicar alertas de las convocatorias abiertas de acuerdo con los intereses de los potenciales

Market rate alert on egp

Zambia Public Procurement Authority

The idea is to have a system that compares market rates with the offered prices on the electronic government system alerting any variations

CountContracts

An application that allows you to view companies or organisations awarded with multiple contracts.

Protocolo para la medición del avance de Obras

Juan Manuel Arista

Diseñar un modelo de control que permita medir en tiempo real el o los avances de las obras asignadas y contratadas por los gobiernos

CITIZENS ENGAGING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

TELL AND ENGAGE THE CITIZENS

CEPP seeks to obtain public procurement data and publish in a manner that helps citizens and business engage public procurement processes

APOLO - Advancing Procurement by Open Ledger Ops

Reaching for the Stars

Implement Blockchain to Open Data on public expenditure, corporations, and trade invoices to identify corruption and collusion in real-time.

Ant fraud and Social awareness

Solution for Peace and Justice Association

1. Background According to Global Integrity 2010, Somalia also performs poorly an all procurement related criteria. There are no regulation

Open data and open micro procurement

Mobilized Construction

Software platform for local road governance and procurement by using smartphones for data collection, visualization, and micro-contracting

Monaqasat Morocco

Open Data Morocco

The aim of this project is to provide citizens, journalists, companies an easy and transparent way to monitor government spendings.

OpenTenderTR

Dağ Medya&Edo-Tech

We want to create an open tender dashboard and making an API availabl. Such as tools, and reports for business, government, and NGO

Crowdsourcing to monitor procurement contracts

Public Procurement Monitoring Office

To develop web-based platform to allow public to monitor procurement contract, crowdsource their feedback to process & take remedial action.

Crowd-Based Social Red Flagging

Social Red Flaggers

An online visual tool to build red flag rules that can be shared, refined, and promoted for re-use on any OCDS datasets fed into the system.

Unlocking potential of data in the waste sector

Clean up Nepal

Unlocking the potential of open data and open contracting data standards in increasing transparency and accountability in the waste sector.

DUEPROP APP ( SMART CITY SOLUTIONS)

DueProp (Pty) Ltd.

DueProp App is a Smart City solution allows users to search, verify, submit and settle municipal property related services.

Giving Procurement A Voice

Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd

Availing public with access to procurement data and enable monitoring and placing feedback/complaint over voice-based interactive system.

GOvSELL APP

DIO (Daniel Isaias Operaciones)

Crear una aplicación de fácil acceso para los vendedores de las compras públicas. Pitch> https://youtu.be/T8Djio0pC3w

Contrataciones abiertas Nicaragua

Desarrollo de plataforma que muestre las contrataciones publicas,empresas adjudicadas y analizarla a través de una serie de indicadores

Registro Público de Órdenes de Compras y de Pago

Yahayra V. Duce

Crear un registro público e histórico que difunda la información relacionada con el proceso de pagos en las compras y contrataciones

Contratos Abertos (Open Contracting) São Paulo

The Commons

We'll use Named Entity Recognition in Natural Language Processing (NPL) to identify and extract the metadata from São Paulo city contracts.

National Open Tenders Portal

Pyrich Group Limited

A Web/Mobile platform where buyers will publish tenders and suppliers can search and participate in the procurement proceedings

Elvis - public procurement visualisation tool

Tenders Exposed

A web service for visualising public procurement data as a social network graph with emphasis on revealing corruption patterns.

What are others doing?

Case studies

A dashboard tracking government’s performance

In Ukraine, the open contracting platform ProZorro has revolutionized its country’s procurement. This Business Intelligence tool uses open contracting data to track the government’s key performance indicators in real time & publishes them openly for anyone to see.

Tracing primary health contracts in Nigeria

Public Private Development Center

Budeshi, an advocacy project in Nigeria, links budget to contract data through the Open Contracting Data Standard.

An app notifying business of contracting opportunities

In Paraguay, a mobile app co-created with developers at a Hackathon notifies companies when new contracting opportunities are posted.

Exposing wasteful spending in hospital procurement in Slovakia

Transparency International Slovakia

Transparency International Slovakia used data culled from the contract publication system to uncover inefficiencies in hospital procurement.

Facilitating businesses’ ability to trade with government

This repository of contract data hosts more than 100,000 opportunities from over 100 countries. Users can analyze trends and investigate irregularities, and businesses can find opportunities to sell to government.

Raising the flag on corruption in Kosovo

Open Data Kosovo

e-prokurimi.org, an online portal for visualizing procurement data in Kosovo’s municipalities, uses a red flag algorithm to automatically detect irregularities in the winning bids for municipal procurements.