Improving the Efficiency and Transparency of Public Procurement with a Focus on Strengthening the Control Framework in Portugal

The Portuguese Court of Audits’ (Tribunal de Contas, TdC) strengthened its control framework and leveraged digital technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance transparency and efficiency in public procurement by detecting risks and irregularities in their assigned mandate to audit public procurement ex-ante, concomitantly and ex-post. 

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