⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Guardian “The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

📺 "It is probably the biggest misspending scandal in the UK of all time." A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from The Guardian for last night's The Covid Contracts documentary featuring commentary and analysis from our Chief Executive, @danieljbruce.bsky.social. Now available on ITVX ⤵️ www.itv.com/watch/the-co...

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🍿 This Sunday: UK's Covid PPE contracts scandal exposed on @itvx.com 🍿 🔍It will expose the UK's billion-pound PPE procurement scandal using hundreds of secret documents, emails & records. ✂️ Did our @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org contributions make the cut? www.itv.com/presscentre/...

Woah, it's hot in Paris today for the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's #PublicProcurement Forum 2025 ☀️ I will be discussing public trust: it's hard to win & easy to lose, so I will be sharing 5 strategies to improve it (or win it back) in procurement. I'll share them here once I've spoken 😉

What do the first 3 months of new & improved UK public procurement data tell us? Gavin & Camila get into all the #datageek details in our readout! 🧵We found 👇 open-contracting.org/2025/06/23/u... #ProcurementAct #opencontracting

The new UK Procurement Act went live on 24 Feb 2025. What do the first three months of data tell us? 🧐 open-contracting.org/2025/06/23/u... #ProcurementAct #opencontracting

#Publicprocurement data is the most widely available cluster of data in the 2025 #TheGDB @databarometer.bsky.social In Africa, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa & Rwanda show what's possible. Read why in our analysis of data fields, coverage & legislation www.open-contracting.org/2025/06/11/i...

Insights from #TheGDB Global Data Barometer @databarometer.bsky.social: The state #publicprocurement data in Africa, #LatAm & the Caribbean: from planning to implementation & supplier identifiers to contract values. Our analysis by @lamilamila.bsky.social www.open-contracting.org/2025/06/11/i...

🆕 Our work impacted over 15 million people and $9 billion in public spending in 2024. Check out our latest Annual Report for more on the achievements of @opencontracting.bsky.social and our local partners worldwide: www.open-contracting.org/annual-repor...

@georgneu.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with the team at Bribery Matters. We took stock of global progress on improving public procurement & shared six lessons from real-world success stories 🧵 www.briberymatters.com/post/how-pub...

As we welcome our new International Advisory Board, we deeply thank our Steering Group who have supported and steered our work during the past years. Thank you to Gavin Hayman @opengavin.bsky.social, Executive Director of the Open Contracting Partnership, outgoing Chair of our Steering Group.

Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court! The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📢📢📢 Great job alert. Come join our fabulous team at @open-contracting.org as our senior manager in Asia. Lots of fantastic projects to work on inc in India, Indonesia, Philippines & Thailand. Apply below 👇 open-contracting-partnership.breezy.hr/p/70551a605a...

We're particularly proud of this #opencontracting project, developed through our #Lift impact accelerator, as it brought together a coalition of civil society actors and government to improve access to a critical public service.

Now live: Check out @trbrasil.bsky.social's Medicamentos Transparentes, a new platform to research and compare medicine prices in 🇧🇷 medicamentos.transparencia.org.br #opencontracting

Such a honour to represent our awesome @open-contracting.org & DREAM team in #Ukraine. Thanks so much @worldcc.bsky.social for recognising the transformational nature of DREAM to deliver #Infrastructure, #publicinvestment & the country's reconstruction 🏆

Congratulations DREAM Ukraine on the World CC Innovation & Excellence Award! We’re honored to work with our incredible partners in Ukraine to transform procurement into a tool for trust, resilience & recovery. Thank you to everyone supporting this work! info.worldcc.com/innovation_a...

Our @opengavin.bsky.social and Kristen highlight how finance tracking platforms like Ukraine’s DREAM can help shift us toward greater accountability and civic involvement in #ClimateFinance as we commit huge💰 to enhance climate adaptation & mitigation. Read 🔗 www.open-contracting.org/2025/04/22/d...

"Dude, where's my climate finance platform?" A good question for #EarthDay2025. The good news is that we already have models of transparent, trackable systems being used for other public spending that can inspire us. Read on... www.open-contracting.org/2025/04/22/d...

What are you up to this #EarthDay, 22 April? Excited for this launch with our amazing partners CDL India & @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social of our open source tools for climate & disaster resilience, now protecting 6m+ vulnerable citizens in India. Join us 👇 www.open-contracting.org/events/build...

🚨🚨Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’ Exclusive: Candy’s company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses placed in PPE VIP lane. Latest report by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and me ⤵️ democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...

📢 Great UK job alert 📢 We need a new senior communications coordinator at UK Anti-Corruption Coalition (role hosted by Transparency International UK) 👇 www.transparency.org.uk/who-we-are/w...

I made a closing oral statement on behalf of the @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org to the UK Covid Inquiry today. I summarised our data-driven analysis of poor pandemic purchasing by the UK & shared our key recommendations 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Last week, at the UK's Covid Inquiry, Matt Hancock incorrectly dismissed procurement data comparisons on the UK's runaway purchasing of PPE compared to its European peers. He is incorrect in his assertions 👇 www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/blog/matt-ha...

👍 Our coalition's public procurement policy recommendations are here: www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/procurement 📅 Follow us ☝️ for updates as the Inquiry's Module 5 continues to hear evidence until 27 March.

📊 The data show that healthcare systems across Europe - both public and private models - followed broadly similar procurement patterns in 2019. NHS or not, the UK looks just like its European peers that year. 📈 But when the pandemic hit in 2020, the UK became a very dramatic outlier.

🚨 📝 Last week, the former Health Secretary alleged our evidence submission to the Covid Inquiry contained “meaningless” data lacking “factual value”. ❌ This is a serious, but wrong, charge. 🧾 Our Co-Chair @opengavin.bsky.social kept the receipts: www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/blog/matt-ha...

🥳We are celebrating 10 years of @opencontracting.bsky.social 💚10 years of transforming public procurement to better serve people & planet rather than bureaucracy 📈With amazing partners, we've helped improve $110bn of public spending & reach 200m lives www.open-contracting.org/2025/03/24/m...

Excited that @opencontracting.bsky.social & our Ukrainian allies have made the shortlist for @worldcc.bsky.social's European technological innovation award for our work on Dream.gov.ua to support Ukraine's #infrastructure resilience & recovery 🥳 news.worldcc.com/news-from-wo...?

📝 The UK Anti-Corruption Coalition's statement in full is here: www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/stateme... And press release here: www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/press-r... Follow us ☝️ for more updates. 10/10

📝 Our friends at @transparencyusa.bsky.social issued a statement in response to the executive order too: us.transparency.org/news/pause-o... 9/10

4️⃣ Build capacity at the Serious Fraud Office and National Crime Agency to ensure that they can work with partners globally to maintain robust anti-corruption enforcement. 8/10

2️⃣ Make clear representations to the US administration that it is neither in its national security or commercial interests to undermine the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. 6/10

Our coalition now calls on the UK government to: 1️⃣ Build a coalition of partners in the EU, Commonwealth countries and those in the Global South to defend international anti-corruption instruments. 5/10

🗣️ And @transparencyuk.bsky.social Director of Policy @duncanhames.bsky.social challenged the White House's contention that suspending this regulation is pro-business: 📊 "High profile enforcement of foreign bribery laws actually helps businesses rebuff demands for them to pay bribes overseas." 4/10

🗣️ Meanwhile Co-Chair @opengavin.bsky.social, Executive Director of @opencontracting.bsky.social said: 💰 "This is a huge mistake that will make US and global businesses more vulnerable to extortion from tyrants, kleptocrats and thieves around the world." 3/10

🗣️ This order will also raise costs of doing business and distort growth globally. Our Co-Chair @suehawley.bsky.social of @spotlightcorruption.org said: 🌍 "The UK needs to make clear these actions undermine anti-corruption efforts globally and are in no-one's interest, least of all the US.” 2/10

🚨 Statement 🚨 The US administration's pausing of all foreign bribery enforcement will precipitate a “race to the bottom”. www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/stateme... 1/10

🚨 Join IATI at their FfD4 PrepCom3 side event today at 1:15-2:30 PM EST. They'll lead a discussion on how data aligns financial flows with sustainable development priorities. High-level speakers will focus on open data and its role in advancing SDGs. 🔗 Register ⬇️

With the #FCPA, the US was forcing others to play by its rules. Now US companies will play by the rules of others. This is a HUGE mistake that will make US & global businesses more vulnerable to extortion from tyrants, kleptocrats & thieves around the world. @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org

In these uncertain times, making government work better for its citizens is more crucial than ever. Here’s what 232 procurement reformers in 70 countries shared with us at @opencontracting.bsky.social about our work in 2024 & how we can do better in 2025 👇 www.open-contracting.org/2025/02/06/o...

And then there was his idea for a prediction market to assess success or failure of gov policies before they spend billions on them 🤯 #SOOCon25

Thanks @openuk.bsky.social. We had a great session on #opengov & #opendaata. Very struck by Lord Wei's remark: citizens now have unparalleled flexibility over their consumer experiences; it's no surprise that they are getting angry with slow, paper-based gov that can't even collect bins on time.

👇 Great paper on #fastaccountability @taicollab.bsky.social! 🌱 Better data & workflows really matter in emergency response so thinking & working digitally can be a gamechanger for #climatefinance 👀 Some good #opencontracting examples inside 📈 Agree we need to track & monitor results better too

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky really hammered Europe in his Davos speech, addressing its future and the threats facing it. "Right now, all eyes are on Washington. But who’s actually watching Europe at the moment?" Here are some highlights from his speech 🧵

Our new @opencontracting.bsky.social brief on "Opening Doors and Opening Markets", supported by @mastercardfdn.bsky.social Strive, provides tools to enable small businesses to access public procurement & to support a fairer, more inclusive economy. www.open-contracting.org/resources/op...

New from me in the Economist this week. How the children of Congo-Brazzaville’s President Sassou Nguesso allegedly embezzled millions from a hospital building contract: www.economist.com/middle-east-...

.@opencontracting in 2025: our plans for impact, inclusion & innovation, plus a significant birthday! open-contracting.org/2025/01/17/o... Can't think of a better first post over here @bsky.app 😉 #PublicProcurement #OpenContracting #10YearsStrong #OCP2025