Angola: Angola’s Tax Authority Awards Kz3.15bn Contract to Company That Helped Shape Its Own Tender – Part I

[Maka] When Angola’s General Tax Administration (AGT) announced a billion kwanza (US$1.2 million) tender for its communications plan on 15 November 2023, one of the eventual bidders had already seen the tender documents, proposed changes to the requirements and received the final version from the tax authority itself two days before publication. In Pressionante Kianda won. Messages, drafts and successive versions of the documents show that the bidder did more than compete. It helped shape the tender before it