Transparency SK has just launched Open Public Procurement – procurement data reporting/procurement site – http://tender.sme.sk/en/.

The site collects information on 30+k contracts since 2005 worth almost 22 billion euros. Essentially a business intelligence application, the site provides both detailed and aggregated information on procurers, vendors and business sectors. Using the application, users, be they anticorruption watchdogs, businesses or government agencies, can easily analyze competitiveness or market concentration.

Application in bilingual (Slovak, English), provides data exports and could be easily tweaked for other EU countries due to similar legislation. If you are interested in the code, please get in touch.

Open Contracts Portal had been kindly supported by our partners Open Society Foundations, the Embassy of the United States in Slovakia and Siemens Integrity Initiative.

Transparency International Slovakia and Fair-Play Alliance have launched a new internet portal (Google Translate version) aiming to provide easier access to thousands of contracts administered by the state. Journalists, researchers and members of public can now easily browse through the piles of digitalized and tidied contracts.
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On 22.9.2011 TIS held a workshop named National Integrity System of Slovakia. High calibre parcipants included representatives of public prosecution, the third sector, Anti-monopoly Office, Supreme Audit Office, the Ombudsman, members of parliament, foreign embassys, and other eminent Slovak stakeholders and representatives of the public and private sector. The purpose of the workshop was to receive feedback and reactions to the still working document Assessment report of the national integrity system of Slovakia which is due to be publicly distributed and presented in late November 2011. The second half of the meeting was spent finding concrete solutions and recommendations on how to improve the current state of the national integrity system.

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Application visualizes more than 33 thousand grants from 2004 to 2010 worth more than 350 million euro.

Ministries of Education and Culture spend yearly roughly 60 million euro on sports and culture grants, a sum approximately equal to budget of town of Presov with 90 thousand citizen. Despite this significant sum of money, ministries provide inadequate information on grants’ spending. It is virtually impossible to find out how many grants had been provided due to lack of a unified state grants database.

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