Ukraine’s Prozorro is a world-class electronic procurement system. Its data transparency policy and innovative model of cross-sector collaboration has created an unmatched level of granularity in procurement data and a thriving ecosystem of users and produced innovations that have inspired many other public contracting reforms around the world.
Prozorro’s core principle ‘Everyone sees everything,’ ensures access to the procurement data through an open API. Such access to data has allowed the creation of unique analytical tools—both public and professional modules for public procurement analytics, administrated by Transparency International Ukraine project DOZORRO.
Almost a decade after their inception, Open Contracting Partnership team talked to people across government, monitoring institutions, the private sector, and civil society to understand how business intelligence platforms have changed their activities.
The work of the Transparency International Ukraine team, in partnership with the government, businesses, and civil society, has produced the following results over past nine years:
- More than 30,000 buyers, suppliers, and other users each year analyze Ukraine’s public procurement market daily, with a total volume of UAH 917 billion (~USD 24 billion) in 2023.
- More than 16,000 buyers and suppliers have been trained to use the BI Prozorro module to improve the efficiency of their routine procurement tasks.
- Over 80 studies analyzing public procurement issues have been prepared, contributing to the improvement of regulations and informing policymaking at various levels. For instance, one study by the Kyiv School of Economics on the 24-hour correction period for tender proposals led to regulatory changes that have saved the state more than UAH 11 billion (>USD 30 million) since 2021.
- Through regular feedback and participation in coordination meetings with SoE Prozorro and procurement platforms, improvements have been made in data collection, publication, and the overall public procurement process within the Prozorro system.
Structured interviews with stakeholders reveal that the public BI Prozorro analytics module expands market opportunities for businesses; encourages better internal compliance and integrity among buyers; promotes efficient resource use in public procurement; and helps improve the quality of goods, works, and services provided through public procurement in Ukraine. The impact of the analytics module on the procurement ecosystem can be indirectly assessed by examining BI use cases documented by different stakeholders and the achievements they contributed to:
- Policymakers: The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the SoE Prozorro use BI Prozorro and ProBI modules for policy development, analysis, reporting, and informing stakeholders about procurement reforms.
- Buyers: Use BI Prozorro to analyze the market, prepare for procurement transactions, develop procurement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and assess their own performance.
- Internal Oversight Bodies and Centralized Procurement Organizations: Use BI Prozorro for real-time monitoring of potential deviations in the procurement processes, risk identification, and internal control over their network of subsidiary organizations.
- Suppliers: Use BI Prozorro to find new business opportunities, analyze buyers, monitor competitors, and increase business profitability.
Think tanks and NGOs: Use BI Prozorro to identify issues in the procurement sector, conduct civic monitoring, and prepare research papers.
This research is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of Open Contracting Partnership and Transparency International Ukraine and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
This research has been funded by UK International Development from the UK government; however, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies.
This research was conducted with funding from the National Endowment for Democracy. Views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of the National Endowment for Democracy.
