IPW Survey: A Majority of Tender Winners Admit to Bribery

Among IPW's most cited findings is a survey indicating that a striking majority of goods and services providers had engaged in bribery connected to government tenders, with a large share reporting they paid specifically in order to win. The survey also pointed to procurement committees and officials as frequent initiators of the transactions, underscoring that demand-side pressure is as much a driver as supplier behaviour. IPW uses the finding to argue that anti-corruption efforts must address both bidders and the officials who run tenders, and that electronic, well-documented processes reduce the private contact where such deals are struck.