Published: February, 2020
Authors: Liz David-Barrett
As part of the ‘Curbing corruption in procurement’ research project, the team has collected, cleaned, standardised, and analysed national public procurement data from a diverse set of countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, including India (federal level). This research involves mining large amounts of government contracting data from government portals and repositories in order to analyse how procurement can be manipulated for corrupt ends. The team analyses the data to identify suspicious patterns widely associated with corruption, such as tailored bidding conditions and only a single bid being submitted on a market with multiple potential bidders.
