The OECD reviews national and sector-specific public procurement regimes, to guide and support countries in combatting collusive practices. This review analyses the procurement practices in Colombia to help the country step up its fight against bid rigging.

The OECD reviews national and sector-specific public procurement regimes, to guide and support countries in combatting collusive practices. This review analyses the procurement practices in Argentina's in the public works sector to help the country step up its fight against bid rigging.

The OECD reviews national and sector-specific public procurement regimes, to guide and support countries in combatting collusive practices. This review analyses Brazil's federal public-procurement rules and practices in light of the OECD Recommendation and Guidelines on Fighting Bid Rigging in...

The OECD reviews national and sector-specific public procurement regimes, to guide and support countries in combatting collusive practices. This review analyses Mexico's PEMEX procurement rules and practices in light of the OECD Recommendation and Guidelines on Fighting Bid Rigging in Public...

The OECD reviews national and sector-specific public procurement regimes, to guide and support countries in combatting collusive practices. This review analyses Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission procurement rules and practices in light of the OECD Recommendation and Guidelines on Fighting...

The OECD reviews national and sector-specific public procurement regimes, to guide and support countries in combatting collusive practices. This review analyses Mexico's Social Security Institute procurement rules and practices in light of the OECD Recommendation and Guidelines on Fighting Bid...

Bid rigging is an illegal practice in all OECD member countries and can be investigated and sanctioned under the competition law and rules. The OECD Guidelines provide a strategy for the design of tenders to hinder bid rigging and for the detection of bid rigging during the tender process.

This Public Procurement Brief presents two new EU public procurement Directives (2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU) on procurement by public and utilities sectors. The Directives are part of a recently adopted EU legislative package reforming the EU public procurement rules. The Brief provides an...

Public authorities are major consumers in Europe: they spend approximately 2 trillion euros annually. By using their purchasing power to choose goods and services with lower impacts on the environment, they can make an important contribution to sustainable consumption and production....

SIGMA Brief 29 gives a short overview of the issue of common errors in public procurement. For the purposes of the Brief, errors are understood as infringements of public procurement rules and principles, regardless of the stage of the procedure. The Brief analyses the types of errors and their...