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1 in 3 tenders without fair competition, open data encourage investigative journalism to denounce corruption with taxpayers’ money On January 7th, the TopStory investigative show on Top Channel\u00a0denounced<\/a>\u00a0forms of fraud through public procurement tenders. Shocking facts were brought to the program for one in every three tenders without fair competition. 300 million euros of taxpayers’ money results to be lost every year, abused and misappropriated through tenders with clientelist elements. AIS, an organization promoting Open Data in Albania, contributed to this courageous TV investigation through data released: Specifically: Data about tenders and contracts with problems regarding competition published on the\u00a0Open Procurement Albania\u00a0<\/a>portal; information about clientelist companies published in the\u00a0Open Corporates Albania\u00a0<\/a>portal, and data on the payments from the State Budget published on\u00a0Spending Data Albania\u00a0<\/a>. For the last four years, AIS has been publishing data and assessing the risk of irregularities in tenders, known as RedFlag procurement, identifying information and gaps for every tender held by\u00a0municipalities\u00a0<\/a>;\u00a0Albanian Development Fund\u00a0<\/a>;\u00a0Albanian Road Authority\u00a0<\/a>;\u00a0Health Sector<\/a>;\u00a0Central Purchasing Agency<\/a>;\u00a0Public-Owned Agency<\/a>;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 in 3 tenders without fair competition, open data encourage investigative journalism to denounce corruption with taxpayers’ money On January 7th, the TopStory investigative show on Top Channel\u00a0denounced\u00a0forms of fraud through public procurement tenders. Shocking facts were brought to the program for one in every three tenders without fair competition. 300 million euros of taxpayers’ money results to be lost every year, abused and misappropriated… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ndiqparate.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-11.png?fit=1048%2C862&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22767,"url":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=22767&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":11006,"position":0},"title":"Info-sessions with Journalists: Investigative journalists use data, evidence, and visualizations from the Open Procurement Albania database for LGUs - Examples","date":"August 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Albanian Institute of Science hosts journalists in its premises every other week, during which they report and use our data to conduct Investigative Articles. 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