Speaker presentations:

David Drabkin, Corporate Director, Acquisition Policy, Northrop Grumman Corp. (formerly with GSA)    download presentation

José Miguel de la Cuadra, Head of Procurement Division, ChileCompra   download presentation

Robert R. Hunja, Manager, WBIGV    download presentation 

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According to the 2009 Global Corruption Report published by Transparency International, corruption in public procurement raised project costs by approximately 10%, resulting in a loss of $300 billion to $500 billion dollars around the world.

In the last fifteen years, procurement reform, process simplification, and generalization of information and communication technologies usage in the public sector has created a wealth of knowledge and products in the electronic government procurement domain (eGP). Economists and researchers are seeing more evidence between information disclosure through public access to procurement data and that of improvements in Government, accountability, and controle of public expenditure. Many countries have embarked on procurement reform an eGP implementation, from Australia, Canada, USA,, Korea, Singapore etc. to Chile, Brazil, India, Philippines, Panama, and others.

All stages of the procurement process can benefit from electronic processes, including pre-qualification, advertising, preparation and issuance of bidding documents, receipt of bids, bid opening, evaluation of bids, clarification and modification, notification and publication of results. In most countries, these steps are carried out manually, often resulting in delays in process, associated costs, lack of transparency and possibilities for corruption. To address this problem, many developed and developing countries have introduced electronic procurement (eProcurement) to increase efficiency and competition, cut costs and reduce the opportunity for corruption. Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) solutions have been proven to produce transparency and significant savings for those countries able to implement them successfully.

This session will discuss the roadmap, planning , implementation and good practices around eProcurement solutions. It will also discuss the Government Transformation Initiative, of which eProcurement is a main element.