Competitive Intensity and Corruption Risks in the Hungarian Public Procurement

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1 Competitive Intensity and Corruption Risks in the Hungarian Public Procurement Tóth, I. J. * - Hajdu, M. *: CRCB, istvanjanos.toth@crcb.eu Frontiers of Data Science for Government: Ideas, Practices, and Projections September 2016 University of Cambridge

2 CRCB Non-profit, non-partisan organisation From 2013 Our main / recent topics: Media analysis (content analysis & discourse analysis) Big Data & data scarping, database building Quality of legislation with hard data Detection /measurement of corruption risk with hard data

3 Interdisciplinary team Staff & Support Voluntary workers (coders, experts, research assistants e.t.c.) IT: Precognox ltd. & 3gteam ltd. Financial support: EU Commission; Hungarian Competition Authority; OSI; governments; company donations

4 MAIN FINDINGS

5 Main Messages In the period of the Hungarian Public Procurement is characterised by Shrinking competitive intensity Raising corruption risks Raising overpricing The EU funding has perverse effects in Hungary shrinks competitive intensity; increases corruption risk and increases the level of overpricing;

6 MOTIVATIONS

7 EU funds & corruption 1. How does BIG DATA / objective indicators help to cohesion policy for targeting cohesion funds, to detect corruption risk to avoid social losses to build a better system for analysing PP at contract level 2. How do EU funds effect on Competitive intensity Corruption risks Overpricing in public procurement 3. Crony capitalism

8 DATA & INDICATORS

9 Data Hungarian data: contract level data, [ ]; Original /official data (unstructured, dirty) with typos, missing data, e.t.c: ( cleaning and database building Cleaned and structured data: MaKAB (N=178,510) ( Database building was partially supported by EU 7th Framework, (Anticorrp project). European data, contract level data, : TED (N= 1,777,955)

10 From this

11 ..to this

12 Hungarian PP Data dates, company names, contract value, type of procedure, number of bidder, cpv [common procurement vocabulary] codes, geographic information

13 Indicators EUFUND [0,1]: Tender is funded by the EU; The value of 1 means that the tender is financed by the EU, 0 otherwise. ICI: Index of Competitive Intensity [0.301 ICI 1]; It measures the competitive intensity: low value means low intensity, high value means high intensity. X: the number of bidders in a tender. ICI = lnx/ln10 in case where 2 x 10, and ICI = 1 if x > 10. If x = 1, ICI = 99; and ICI = 99 means also missing value

14 Indicators TI [0,1]: Transparency Index; The value of 0 means the tender was issued without announcement; the value of 1 means the tender was issued with announcement. SB [0,1]: Single bidder / Existence of Competition; The value of 0 means there were more than one bidder; the value of 1 means no competition, there was only one bidder in the pp procedure. CR2 [0, 0.5, 1]: Corruption Risk Indicator; The value of 0 means low corruption risk (more than one bidder and tender with announcement), the value of 1 means high corruption risk (tender without competition and without announcement). CRONIES [0,1]: winner company is owned by Viktor Orban s friends or family member

15 RESULTS

16 HPP: , N = 127,

17 Share of EU funding in total contract value, N = 127, % of total contract value is financed by EU Share of contract value of PP financed by EU in total contract value by year, %

18 Share of EU funded PP in total number of PP in European countries, , N = 1,777,955 Hungary is one of the biggest beneficiary country in the EU CZ EE EL PT HU LT LV SK IE PL FI ES BG LU GE RO BE FR SI NL UK IT AU SE DK Source: TED

19 Competitive Intensity (ICI), N = 88,254 ICI has a decreasing trend over the period

20 Competitive Intensity (ICI) in selected European countries, , N = 413,910 ICI is very low in Hungary compared to UK, FI, DE, DK, NL data. Source: TED

21 TI has a decreasing trend over the period Transparency Index (TI) in HPP, N = 121,

22 Share of PP without competition (SB), , N = 126,027 Cca % of the HPP were managed without competition; very high level main findings motivation data & indicators results discussion

23 Share of PP without competition (SB) in selected EU countries, , N = 1,777,955 SK: quick decrease 70,0 Poland: the highest level (44-47%) UK, DK, DE, FI, SE: low level 60,0 50,0 40,0 30,0 20,0 hu pl sk cz uk dk de fi sw 10,0 0,

24 Trend of Corruption Risk (CR2) in Hungary, , N = 120,221 CR2 is increasing over the period main findings motivation data & indicators results discussion

25 EU vs non-eu funding

26 Competitive Intensity (ICI), N = 86,722 Tenders financed by EU have lower competitive intensity

27 Transparency Index (TI), N = 120,432 Tenders financed by EU have lower transparency

28 Corruption Risks (CR2), N = 118,843 Tenders financed by EU have higher corruption risk

29 PRICE DISTORTION: OVERPRICING

30 P (d) The Benford s law 35 The distribution of first digits, according to Benford's law Benford distribution 30,1 17,6 12,5 9,7 7,9 6,7 5,8 5,1 4,6 Digits (d) A set of numbers is said to satisfy Benford's law if the leading digit d (d {1,..., 9}) occurs with probability:

31 Expected and observed distribution by 1st digits in HPP, , N = 123,224 PP in Hungary; whole sample: The Hungarian data fit quite well to the expected distribution expected distribution 30,1 17,6 12,5 9,7 7,9 6,7 5,8 5,1 4,6 prices of HPP 32,6 20,2 11,3 8,5 6,7 5,6 5,4 4,6 5 Source: CRCB

32 Expected and observed distribution by 1st digits in EU PP, , N = 1,633,114 PP at EU country: 35 Perfectly fits 30 In the whole univ. no price distortion / no overpricing Benford distribution 30,1 17,6 12,5 9,7 7,9 6,7 5,8 5,1 4,6 Prices of EU PP 29,9 18,2 13,0 9,8 8,1 6,5 5,4 4,9 4,

33 Price Distortion & Competiton

34 squared error Distance from the expected distribution (se) by digits and by competition intensity in Hungary, N = 44,035 No competition: high level of overpricing 7 6 High level of competition: good fit to Benford s distribution, no overpricing digits Source: CRCB without competition at least 10 bidder

35 squared error main findings motivation data & indicators results discussion Distance from the expected distribution (se) by digits and by existence of competition (SB) in EU, , N = 1,633,114 No competition: weaker fit, overpricing 0,9 0,8 0,7 Competition: stronger fit, no overpricing 0,6 0,5 0,4 0,3 0,2 0, digits without competition with competition

36 Price Distortion & Transparency

37 Price distoriton / overpricing by Transparency Index (TI) in HPP, N = 124,693, Cramer s V 0,25 0,2 0,15 0,1 0,05 0 Source: CRCB high level of TI low level of TI

38 Price Distortion & Corruption Risk

39 Price distortion / overpricing by Corruption Risk Indicator (CR2) in HPP, N = 124,062, Cramer s V 0,25 High corruption risk: weaker fit, overpricing 0,2 Low corruption risk: stronger fit, no overpricing 0,15 0,1 0,05 0 CR2=0 CR2=0.5 CR2=1 Source: CRCB

40 Price Distortion & Crony Capitalism

41 Price distortion / overpricing in several group of tenders in HPP, N = 135,300, Cramer s V 0,18 0,16 0,14 0,12 0,1 0,08 0,06 0,04 0,02 0 CR2=0 ICI=1 winners: Orban's friends & family Source: CRCB

42 Price Distortion & EU Funding

43 Price Distortion / Overpricing by EU Funding, N = 128,422, Cramer s V 0,16 0,14 0,12 0,1 0,08 0,06 0,04 0,02 0 EUFUND=0 EUFUND=1 Source: CRCB

44 Price Distortion in the Period Analised

45 Distance from the expected distribution (se) by digits and by year in Hungary, N = 123,224 25,00 20,00 15,00 10,00 5,00 0, Forrás: CRCB

46 Trend of price distortion (sse) in HPP by year, N = 123,224 8,00 7,00 6,00 5,00 4,00 3,00 2,00 1,00 0, Source: CRCB

47 DISCUSSION

48 We detected alarming findings & trends The main characteristics of HPP in the period ( ): 1. Shrinking competitive intensity 2. Raising corruption risks 3. Raising price distortion (overpricing)

49 Effects of EU Funding 4. Perverse effects of EU funding on HPP Less competitive intensity More corruption risk More price distortion

50 Next steps Describe the mechanisms & interpretations More detailed analysis of crony capitalism in Hungary Test other effects (industry, contract value, type of issuers, e.t.c.)

51 Thank you for your attention! Corruption Research Center Budapest

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