STRATEGIES OF COMPETITION SUPPORT AND PROCUREMENT THROUGH DATA ANALYTICS

On March 29, 2022 specialists of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition, the Ministry of Finance and the Samruk Kazyna Fund participated in the seminar «Connecting competition and procurements policies through new tools for data analytics» organized by the World Bank and the Brazilian Agency for the Protection of Competition (CADE).

The representatives of the World Bank, senior economists Mariana Lootty and Graciela Miralles, scientific director Mihaly Fazekas and the Head of intelligence unity of Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) Felipe Leitao Valadares Roquete, addressed the Seminar.

The main topic of discussion was competition in public procurement. The participants discussed the nuances of designing better procurement policies and the costs of anticompetitive procurement, cartel risk measurement framework using widely available public procurement data. The CADE case was presented during the implementation of the «Cerebro» project.

On behalf of the APDC Deputy Chairman Marat Omarov expressed gratitude to the organizers and participants for the informative materials, noting that work on improving the policy in the field of public procurement in terms of preventing cartel collusion at bidding will be continued in Kazakhstan and the best practices will be implemented.