92:, covering 17 EU-funded projects in 11 Member States with a total value of over EUR 920 million. The pilot is coordinated by the Transparency International Secretariat, which maintains a status report on each project. The aim of the pilot is to evaluate the effectiveness of Integrity Pacts in achieving their intended objectives of safeguarding procurement projects from corruption, fraud and other irregularities, as well as draw out best practice for future implementation.
99:. A Mid-Term Learning Review published in November 2018 referred specifically to the necessity of political will and to the value of implementing Integrity Pacts early in the pre-tendering phase. The project received the European Ombudsman's Award for Good Administration 2019 in the category "Excellence in open administration". The
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Other countries with particularly successful experiences of
Integrity Pacts include Mexico, where the concept is known as Testigo Social (Social Witness) and implemented by Transparencia Mexicana. This concept was first applied to the construction of the El Cajón and La Yesca dam projects in 2002 and
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The use of
Integrity Pacts is credited with achieving significant cost savings in certain projects where effective monitoring and evaluation systems have been used. For example, an Integrity Pact applied to procurement related to the Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme in Pakistan in 2001 contributed
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The average total cost of implementing an
Integrity Pact in an infrastructure project over one year is estimated to be up to US$ 100,000. This figure depends on many variables including market conditions, the country in which it is implemented, the size of the project and whether Integrity Pacts are
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The development and implementation of an
Integrity Pact is often funded by the contracting authority or a project investor such as an international financial institution. In the case of the EU Integrity Pacts - Civil Control Mechanism for Safeguarding EU Funds project, the European Commission has
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to saving around a fifth of the total contract price. Subsequent projects implemented by the same monitor, Transparency
International Pakistan, also resulted in cost savings and Integrity Pacts are now mandatory in Pakistan for all public procurement projects above a certain threshold.
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The agreement includes a written commitment by all parties to respect specific integrity standards during the procurement process. It typically also includes a process for reporting concerns about corruption and fair competition. Some integrity pacts also include sanctions mechanisms.
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There is evidence that even when an
Integrity Pact "fails" to guarantee a procurement process free of corruption, it nevertheless contributes to transparency and the highlighting of fraud and other irregularities. This is the case in the
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Transparency International Germany formally withdrew in 2015 stating that "corruption has not been taken seriously". The monitor appointed to oversee an Integrity Pact for a tramline project in
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of significant value. As a tool for preventing corruption in public contracting, companies interested in bidding to supply the goods and services give a third party organisation, such as a
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The project was launched at an international conference which was organised by the
Transparency International and supported by the European Commission and held on 5 May 2015 in
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Integrity Pacts have been applied in at least 32 countries to hundreds of procurement projects in a range of sectors including infrastructure, transport, health and defence. In
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budgeted over EUR 7.2 million across the four-year pilot. In other cases, bidders must contribute to the costs of the
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