Global Report: Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency - The Fight Against Corruption

PART I CONFRONTING CORRUPTION IN SECTORS AND FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 1 PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

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Timeline on Somali National Army Rations Re-tendering • Presidential Press Release commits that “All tenders for logistic supplies will be carried out through the Interim Procurement Board”, 9 September 2015. • FGC asserts that it should review any draft contracts before signing and seeks to obtain copies of legacy contracts, Ministry of Finance concludes there are no formal contracts by August 2016. • The federal government launches a competitive tender for army rations in September 2016. • FGC reviews the tender process in February 2017. • Competitively tendered army rations contract with new supplier signed 13th March 2017. • The army cancels the contract in May 2017 and makes arrangements with another provider non-competitively. • Competitively awarded supplier complains in June 2017. • The Ministry of Finance reviews the case in July 2017 and writes to Ministry of Defence to say that the competitively procured contract should stand. Ministry of Defence agrees. • Economic Committee of Cabinet determines in October 2017 that the non-competitive contract should be cancelled, and a competitive re-tender process commenced. • Army rations contractor is served a termination notice by the Minister of Defence in October 2018. • A new army rations tender process is launched in October 2018, but is not concluded. • February 2019, federal government issues a set of financial management procedures for the security sector which also required immediate competitive retendering of all rations contracts. • The government issued a tender for two army rations contracts, for supply of dry rations in two army sectors in April 2019. • The bid submission deadline passed by May 2019, and bids were opened by June 2019. • The government completed the procurement process for supply of dry rations in two army sectors (12 April and Hamar), Police and NISA by September 2019. • The FGC reviewed all four processes and advised that they are an appropriate basis for contract award by September 2019.

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Box 13.6 Trade of Influence in the Judiciary

Box 13.5 Court User and Multi-Stakeholder Justice Surveys

Box 13.3 Specialized Anti-Corruption Courts in the Philippines and Indonesia

Box 13.4 International Cooperation and Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA

Box 13.2 Specialized Anti-Corruption Courts: Political Commitment or Implementation Gaps

Box 10.1 The Extent of Corruption

Box 13.1 Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA

Box 9.2 The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS

Box 9.3 Key Data Questions for Policy Makers to Consider

Table 7.4 AP’s Transformational Technologies

Box 9.1 What is a Beneficial Owner?

Figure 8.2 Final Findings of ANI Reports between 2008 and 2019

Table 7.2 Major Technology Trends for Public Sector Fraud and Corruption

Box 6.2 The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI

Table 7.3 Navigating GovTech for Public Sector Fraud and Corruption

Box 7.2 Singapore’s SkillsFuture Program and Fraud Detection

Box 7.1 Brazil’s Tribunal of Accounts Robots

Box 6.1 What Does Open Data Have to Do with Open Government?

Figure 6.1 Unpacking Open Government

Table 5.1 Corruption in Public Services: Estimating the Magnitude of the Problem

Box 4.1 Standard Operating Procedures and Internal Audit Capacities in Latin America

Figure 4.3 ACD Presence and Main Transit Trade Routes

Box 4.3 Donor Support to Afghanistan Customs Department

Box 2.5 Transparency in Renegotiation for Public-Private Partnerships

Box 3.1 About Empresas Públicas de Medellin

Box 3.3 The Impact of Operation Car Wash across Latin America

Figure 2.7 Causes of Renegotiation, based on 48 Projects that experienced Renegotiation

Figure 1.2 Change in Corruption Risk Indicators as a result of the e-GP Intervention

Box 2.4 The Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS

Box 2.1 IFC’s Integrity Due Diligence (IDD

Figure 2.6 Making Infrastructure Data Useful for Planners, Implementers and Policy Makers

Figure 2.5 Multi-Stakeholder Working at the Project Level

Box 2.2 The Evolution of Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Accountability in Infrastructure

Box 2.3 The Role of the CoST Secretariat

Box 1.1 Timeline on Somali National Army Rations Re-tendering