Nataliia Vyniarchuk (Transparency International Ukraine) - Civic tech end game: closing the feedback loop or becoming governmental? Dozorro case 3. Festival of Civic Tech for Democracy @ Personal Democracy Forum CEE 2019 April 6, 2019 Gdańsk, Poland

1. Public Procurement Monitoring:
ecosystem
Nataliia Vyniarchuk
Transparency International Ukraine

2. EVERYBODY SEES
EVERYTHING
DATA RICH
FIXING INFORMATION
ASYMMETRY
INFORMATION OPENNESS
ANYONE CAN CHECK
ANYTHING
EMPOWERING
FEEDBACK LOOP
VALUE EXTRACTION
TRUST ?

3. VISION
is a civic platform run by
Transparency International Ukraine
executing control over public
procurement
is to unite the civil society, to
ensure equal rules for all
stakeholders of the procurement
system
MISSION

4. impact areas
Development of
analytical and
monitoring tools
Development of
instructions and
educational
materials
Enhancing
feedback loop via
dozorro.org
Professional
development of
partners
A strong
community in the
regions –
monitoring and
training
Giving voice to
local stories

5. tools
Professional Business
Intelligence Module
https://bi.prozorro.org
Public Business
Intelligence Module
https://bi.prozorro.org
DOZORRO website
https://dozorro.org/
DOZORRO
risk indicators
https://dozorro.org/

6. functionality
Feedback on a procuring entity / a
supplier
Profiles of procuring entities /
contractors
Instructions of monitoring and letter
templates
History of AMCU Board decisions
Response ranking
Analytical electronic tools
Profiles of CSOs
News, media, and blogs

7. feedback cycle
Submission
Conditions of procurement
Qualification procedure assessment
Compliance with agreement terms
Winner selection
Review
Response
assessment
Missing deadlines
Supply of low-quality goods
Change of price
Supply of insufficient quantity of goods
Inconsistency with qualification criteria identified
after signing a contract

8. What Happens to Feedback on the Portal
Processed by a
civil society
organization
Processed by the
procuring entity /
inspector
Added to the system,
ranking procuring
entities and
participants

9. Typical Violations Identified by CSOs
Possible avoidance of
open bidding
Conspiracy among
participants
Discriminatory
requirements
Groundless
disqualification
Groundless selection
of winners
Failure to publish
complete information
at the reporting stage

10. Participation of Businesses
84000
reviews
as of March 31

11. community
25 civil society
organizations
33 representatives
of procuring entities
and businesses
Supervisory
agencies
Organizations that share our vision and values:

12. automated risk indicators
6 unique indicators based on the complain review status: no
response on the complain, negative rank on the provided
response, risks mentioned in the feedback etc.
40 risks indicators overall
40 risk indicators
6
40
DOZORRO authored a robust methodology for in-depth
investigations into risky tenders approved by EBRD.
Since 2018 system is running based on ML

13. 650 000+ unique
portal users
70 000+
public BI users
300 certified
professional BI
users
18 0000+
violations identified
achievements
We are listed in top 12 projects worldwide for
engaging citizens as corruption watchdog
by Open Government Partnership
We advocated adoption of the
risk-oriented monitoring approach
in the Law of Procurement
monitoring in Ukraine
We use open-source tools
which make the system highly
replicable elsewhere

14. ● Channel the benefit of open contracting
data to different target groups (citizens,
activists, businesses and controlling bodies)
● Advocate for improvement of the legal
framework regulating procurement,
including below-threshold procedures
● Scale up the active community of
procurement monitoring in other regions
in Ukraine
Example: trainings on
the application of the
analytical tools for
market outlook,
business benchmarking
and engagement of
SMEs
challenges
Example: online maps to
detect if parents charity
donations overlap with
procurements covered by
school budget

15. Thank you!