OECD GOV e-procurement

Despina PachnouPublic Sector Integrity DivisionPublic Governance and Territorial Development

Transparency through e-procurement

Public procurement is the government activity with the highest perception of bribery risk

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Awarding of public contracts

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The 2008 OECD Recommendation on Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement

The core principles are:

• Transparency;

• Good management;

• Prevention of misconduct; and

• Control.

E-procurement systems are not fully developed

Source: OECD Public Procurement survey 2012 Percentage of responding OECD countries.

Transparency through e-procurement

• IMSS (Mexico): new portal with information on price paid and quantity of procured items allows traceability;

• ISSSTE (Mexico): improved e-stock management and inventory systems help assess needs for purchases;

• ChileCompra (Chile): monthly comparison of data with previous information to estimate spend, savings and the use of framework agreements;

• Federal Procurement Agency in the Ministry of the Interior (Germany): electronic workflow to centralise information and provide a record of the procedure.

KONEPS: an end-to-end system

Transparency portals building on e-procurement

• www.portaldatransparencia.gov.br (Brazil): procurement data are extracted from existing IT systems and published on the portal allowing free real-time information on budget execution;

• www.USAspending.gov (USA): single searchable website, freely accessible to the public, which includes information on value and winner for each federal award;

• AusTender (Australia): records searchable by agency, date range, value range, category, confidentiality, supplier name, supplier Australian Business Number; statistics are published.

Selected OECD public procurement publications www.oecd.org/governance/ethics/

The OECD stands ready to assist countries in improving their

procurement processes.

Thank you!

Despina Pachnou

[email protected]