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For CPV category 3019 (office equipment — computers, peripherals), the median Azerbaijani government tender is 4.92× higher than the Ukrainian equivalent: €110,510 vs €22,445 in EUR. Sample: 101 AZ tenders and 92 UA tenders of comparable size. This is not proof of overpayment — it is an audit signal worth investigating.
The top 5 procuring organizations on etender.gov.az control 2,638 tenders worth ~1.93 billion AZN (€1.05 billion) since platform launch. This is structural concentration — not collusion, but a priority point for audit.
EU AI Act Article 12 requires high-risk AI systems to maintain «automatically generated event logs» resistant to tampering. AZTender Audit implements this via a hash-chained append-only log: each record contains the SHA-256 hash of the previous one, and a Postgres trigger physically forbids UPDATE/DELETE. Here is how it works and how to verify it.
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