On December 9, 2024, in celebration of International Anti-Corruption Day, GW Law’s Christopher Yukins will join the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) to discuss IACA’s future contributions to global efforts to fight corruption in public procurement.
Our work over the years with IACA has allowed us to explore how risk-based anti-corruption strategies complement – and strengthen – public procurement outcomes. Bid challenges (protests), for example, and contractor compliance, debarments and legislative oversight — all of these mitigate both the risks of failure in public procurement and the risks of corruption. The next step will be to integrate those risk-based anti-corruption strategies with international best practices, such as through the OECD and the European Union’s forthcoming revised procurement directives.
