Public Procurement roughly accounts for 25-30percent of developing countries expenditures, according to a World Bank report on Strengthening Sustainable Public Procurement, and therefore poses the highest corruption risk in developing countries.
Procurements may range from frequent small and standardised request for quotations type — procurements of pens and computers — to large and more complex, albeit fewer in number request for proposal type — procurements of roads, IT systems and public private partnership arrangements.
