IPW Backs Open Contracting Data

IPW voices support for open contracting — the publication of procurement information as open, structured data from planning through implementation. Structured data, the organisation notes, is what makes patterns across many tenders visible: repeat winners, price outliers, and concentrated markets that no single case reveals. IPW argues that open contracting benefits honest suppliers as much as the public, since a transparent market rewards genuine competition and makes rigged processes easier to detect.