The CoST approach aligns strongly with the aims of the private sector – it promotes fair competition for contracts and encourages more effective project management by procuring entities. Greater oversight …
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Multi-Stakeholder Working Guidance Note: Annexes
These annexes accompany the CoST Guidance Note: Establishing a CoST Multi-stakeholder Working Group. Annex B outlines a Model Terms of Reference and Annex B provides a table on the purposes …
CoST Disclosure Manual
The primary purpose of this manual is to provide guidance to help design and strengthen disclosure processes that ensure the timely and reliable disclosure of data by public infrastructure procuring …
Disclosure Guidance Note
This guidance note sets out the key requirements, questions and steps for the disclosure process under a national or sub-national programme for CoST. It supplements the more detailed CoST Disclosure …
City of Bogotá kicks off CoST membership with public commitment to open government
The Mayor’s Office of Bogotá and CoST representatives from around the world came together last week to hold the virtual launch event of the CoST Bogotá programme, which was streamed …
The importance of political will in securing change: Interview with Lyford Gideon, CoST Malawi
In Malawi, a legal requirement for procuring entities to disclose data in line with the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (CoST IDS) was recently brought into effect. The process of securing …