How to read a World Bank procurement notice
What World Bank procurement notices say, who may bid, how much time you get, and what happens after you submit. A guide for firms new to these tenders.
Guides
Longer explanations for people entering a new market. Written by the AuraTender editorial team from official documents, each with a list of sources.
Tenders and procurement
How to find and bid on IDB-financed projects
The IDB lends but does not buy. Who runs each tender, who may bid, where notices are listed, and how to ask questions or file a protest.
How to prepare a public bid in Latin America
A working plan for companies entering public tenders in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil or Mexico, from portals to foreign-supplier paperwork.
OCDS and open contracting data: a practical guide
What the Open Contracting Data Standard is, how releases and records work, where Latin American procurement data can be downloaded and how to check it.
Joint ventures, local partners and eligibility in public tenders
How consortia and local partners work in multilateral and national tenders, which liability and single-bid rules apply, and how to test a partner.
Energy
Oil and gas concessions, production sharing and service contracts
The main contract models for licensing oil and gas, who owns the barrels and carries the cost under each, and which fiscal terms to read first.
Power purchase agreements: how the contract works
How a PPA makes a power plant bankable: the parties, payment structure, credit support, risk allocation and termination terms to check before investing.
Mining
Mining projects: stages, resource classes and fiscal terms
How a mine moves from exploration to closure, what resources and reserves mean under international codes, and which royalty and tax terms investors compare.
Infrastructure and finance
Project finance and PPPs: how large projects get funded
Why large energy and infrastructure projects sit in separate companies, how lenders and sponsors share risk, and how concessions and PPPs differ.
Environmental and social due diligence: IFC standards and the Equator Principles
What lenders mean by environmental and social due diligence: the eight IFC Performance Standards, the ten Equator Principles and what a sponsor must prepare.
Money and risk
CAPEX and OPEX in energy and mining projects
How to read capital and operating cost figures for power plants, oilfields and mines, and why two similar-looking cost numbers often cannot be compared.
How to assess country risk before entering a market
How to use governance scores, inflation, fiscal data, export-credit ratings and political risk insurance without treating any single index as the answer.
Glossary: 60 terms in energy, mining and public tenders
Plain-language definitions of 60 terms you will meet in energy, mining, infrastructure and public procurement documents, from bid security to take-or-pay.
Where to find official energy, mining and economic data
A working list of public sources for energy, power costs, minerals, governance, inflation and infrastructure deals, and how to cross-check what they say.
The weekly Tender & Resources Brief
One email each Monday. What you get:
- Public tenders in energy, mining, infrastructure and technology that close in the next two weeks, with links to the official notices
- The mining and energy stories that moved markets, with what they mean
- One country in numbers: growth, inflation, foreign investment and governance
- One short explainer, so the vocabulary stops being a barrier