The Open Contracting Partnership grew out of a collaborative process that began in 2012, bringing together reformers from government, business and civil society around a shared ambition to transform public contracting. After being incubated by the World Bank Group, OCP became an independent organization in 2015.

Since then, we have helped build a global community using open data, policy reform and digital solutions to make public procurement work better for people and the planet.

Over our last strategy from 2019-2023, our work had an indirect positive impact on an estimated 209 million lives and US$116 billion dollars of public spending. We documented 14 different reforms where open contracting resulted in major changes in competition, efficiency, value for money, integrity, innovation, and inclusion.

And we’re not done yet.

Our vision: Enabling one billion people to live in more equitable, prosperous and sustainable communities by 2030 by improving US$2 trillion in public procurement spending.