Indicators /
contract lengthening
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Identifier 77 |
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State Active |
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Autonomy Element of composite index |
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Description According to the developers of CRI, contract lengthening suggests that the issuer corruptly favour a well-connected company, potentially repeatedly. This indicator contains a relative figure that shows relative contract extension (days of extension/days of contract length). |
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Country Hungary |
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Language Hungarian |
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Link to project http://tendertracking.eu/about |
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Developer Corruption Research Center Budapest |
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Link to source code N/A |
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Where to extract data from CRCB uses its own dataset for the index (partially available at tendertracking.eu). Data contains of public procurement procedures conducted under Hungarian Public Procurement. Variables appear in 1) calls for tenders; 2) contract award notices; 3) contract modification notices; 4) contract completion announcements; 5) administrative corrections notices. |
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Process phase IMPLEMENTATION |
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Validation Validated |
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Validation method the indicator is partially validated. the developers only set forth possible ways of validation of CRI, but according to their own assessment, it takes several years to validate the aforementioned indicators on a whole scale. These elementary validation routes, however, are important as follows: 1. analysis of cross-sectional and time-series distribution of CRI 2. relationship between the amount of spending not reported in the PP database and CRI on the organisational level 3. analysis of profitability and turnover growth of winning firms with different CRI 4. political control of winning companies is collated with their CRI 5. comparison of average CRI of "crony companies" with those whose success is largely unaffected by government change. |
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Tags abuse of contract changes and amendments
algorithmic
input indicator
numeric indicator
process rigging
temporal indicator
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