At the recent annual meeting of Swedish private consultants and Sida, the aid agency for the first time divulged the total contract value for a single year: SEK 1.2 billion in new contracts signed with consulting firms during 2004.

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Sida training tenders: Norwegian firm challenges Swedish domain

Sida’s international training programme contracts have traditionally been a Swedish domain. Now a query from a Norwegian consulting firm has resulted in Sida lowering the barriers for non-Swedish bidders.