The Idiot's Guide to Looting Public Procurement to Get Rich Quick
| Author | Open Contracting Partnership |
|---|---|
| Published | 2018 |
| Format | Report |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A satirical leaflet from the Open Contracting Partnership that explains procurement fraud as mock advice to corrupt officials, to argue for open contracting data.
Published in 2018 by the Open Contracting Partnership, a non-profit that pushes governments to publish data on public contracts. Written as tongue-in-cheek advice to a would-be corrupt official, it walks through the familiar ways tenders are abused, such as rigged specifications, inflated prices, cartels and kickbacks, citing figures such as the share of foreign bribes linked to public contracting.
The joke turns at the end: each scheme is harder to pull off when contracting data is open, which is the organisation’s case. It carries a note that the real Idiot’s Guides and For Dummies series had nothing to do with it.
What it is: an advocacy leaflet in satirical form from an anti-corruption non-profit, footnoted to OECD, RAND and similar sources.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Original on the Open Contracting Partnership site.
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
12 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.