Empowering civic monitoring: identifying low-integrity contracts with opentender.eu

At the iMonitor project, we are committed to empowering citizens to actively engage in monitoring public contracts, thereby contributing to transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption efforts in public procurement at the local level. Our innovative public contract monitoring model combines data-driven risk assessment with on-the-ground monitoring by trained civic monitors.

Central to our approach is the use of opentender.eu, maintained by the Government Transparency Institute, as a foundational tool for assessing the integrity of millions of contracts across Europe. Opentender employs our risk assessment methodology and offers users a series of integrity indicators that highlight relevant risks for each individual tender and contract in its database. These allow us to strategically direct our civic monitoring efforts towards low-integrity contracts where the potential preventive impact is higher.

In order to help civic monitors leverage Opentender’s functionalities, we are releasing a series of four tutorial videos on how to use the platform’s various features for identifying low-integrity contracts. These video guides support the first step of iMonitor’s three-step monitoring process: Select, Monitor, Report. By equipping civic monitors with the skills needed to identify contracts with higher integrity risks, we aim to enhance the effectiveness of our monitoring efforts.

Check out our tutorials videos on the Government Transparency Institute (GTI)’s Youtube Channel!