Phase 4: Tender Management
Tender Management: refers to the process of inviting, evaluating, and awarding infrastructure works or services, including design, construction, and supervision works.
Risks identified
Restricted competition through non-transparent tendering
Tender process is conducted with limited advertising, unjustified use of restricted procedures, including related to qualification and pre-qualification, or short timelines, reducing competition and increasing discretion in award decisions.
Learn more →Bid rigging and collusion among bidders
Bidders coordinate prices, rotate winners or share markets to inflate contract values and undermine competition.
Learn more →Bribery and kickbacks for favourable evaluation, shortlisting and award decisions
Officials, advisers or intermediaries solicit or receive kickbacks in exchange for favourable evaluations, shortlisting, contract awards or contract terms.
Learn more →Leakage of confidential tender information and manipulation of evaluation criteria
Confidential information is leaked and evaluation criteria are adjusted to benefit specific bidders, compromising fairness.
Learn more →Undue influence of political agents and intermediaries in the tender process
Political agents (politicians, government bureaucrats) and intermediaries (agents, lobbyists, political connectors) shape tender outcomes through informal influence, opaque commissions and conflicts-of-interest.
Learn more →Tender capture by organised crime or politically exposed networks
Organised crime, coercive networks or politically exposed groups capture the tender process through intimidation, collusion or control of subcontracting and supply chains.
Learn more →Manipulated bid evaluation
Evaluation and award decisions are manipulated to favour a preferred bidder, despite formal procedures.
Learn more →Evaluators with conflicts-of-interest
Undeclared conflicts-of-interest among officials, advisers, or consultants bias tender decisions and oversight.
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