Government procurement

Public procurement

For example, in Australia, public procurement is largely governed by government procurement policies, consisting of Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines, Finance Circulars and Procurement Guidance, the latter including a range of web based and printed guidance documents developed by the Department of Finance and Administration to assist agencies and officials to implement the Government's procurement policy.

International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies. www.evenett.com working revisedevenetthoekman.pdf

The way government does its procurement affects the format of electronic auctions in public procurement.

Procurement policy and procedures manuals

See, e.g., in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, articles 22 and 27 the Shenzhen City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 31 the Zhuhai City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 29 and the Hefei City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 25.

See, e.g., in the Philippines, the Act providing for the Modernization, Standardization and Regulation of the Procurement Activities of the Government and for Other Purposes, Republic Act No. 9184 (the Government Procurement Reform Act ), section 6, which states that the Government Procurement Policy Board shall pursue the development of generic procurement manuals, the use of which once issued shall be mandatory upon all procuring entities.

See the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 8 the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 6 and the Xuzhou City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 8.

In addition, a moratorium could be placed on any restrictive policies relating to outsourcing (e.g. government procurement).

Public Procurement Code, article 56(3).

See the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 19 and the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22.

See, in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22 the Shunyi District of Beijing Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 20 and the Liuzhou City Rules of Implementation for Public Procurement through Online Procurement , article 22.

See, e.g., the Public Procurement Law of Poland (article 80(2)) and, in China, the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22.

See, e.g., the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding , article 6, and the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding , article 8.

See, in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding , article 19 and the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22.

See, e.g., the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 17 and the Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding of Shunyi District of Beijing, article 15.

Propose policies for procurement and installation of station equipment

Article 78(2) of the Public Procurement Law of Poland.

UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

Differences could be seen in the choice between government regulation, procurement policies and private sector initiatives to achieve legitimate objectives.

COMPRASNET (www.comprasnet.gov.br) is the web platform for e Government Procurement of the Federal Government in Brazil.

See, e.g., the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding.

See, e.g., article 22 of the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding.

E procurement is yet to be reflected in procurement policy and procedures manuals as an alternative method to manual transactions.

See, e.g., the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding , article 22.

In China, ERAs are open only to members of the local online public procurement bidding system maintained by local public procurement centres.

Table 4 Benefits and beneficiaries of electronic government procurement

A recent EC communication proposes a framework for services GP basically providing for commitments on GP to be taken within the framework of schedules of specific commitments, listed in a fifth column on limitations on GP.

Table 5.

In the context of WTO, government procurement is subject to transparency obligations not only under the GPA but also article X.1 of GATT and article III.1 of GATS, with the result that the number of States obliging to publish measures relating to government procurement is not limited to the States parties to the GPA.

See, e.g., in China, the Liuzhou City Rules of Implementation for Public Procurement through Online Procurement, article 19.

Such a requirement is found in article 75(1) of the Public Procurement Law of Poland.

Public Procurement Law of Poland of 29 January 2004, article 74(2).

See Purchase Contract Awards Act 2002 of Austria, para. 116.10(4) and article 79(2) of the Public Procurement Law of Poland.

In China, regulations on online public procurement bidding have been adopted by a number of local governments while in Singapore, the subject is regulated by internal documents of procuring agencies.

Full transparency continues to be ensured in the area of Government procurement.

Partly as a result of this policy, the harmonization of procurement policies, procedures and practices across the organizations is still to make decisive headway.

See, e.g., the Working Procedure for Online Procurement Bidding (Office Equipment), article 6, under the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding.

See, e.g., the Public Procurement Law of Poland, article 75(2) and Purchase Contract Awards Act 2002 of Austria, para.

(c) The European Union does to have a stated policy of preference or ineligibility concerning procurement among its members.

See, e.g., appendix IV to the GPA listing publications utilized by States parties to the GPA for the publication of texts under paragraph 1 of article XIX of the GPA.

See, e.g., appendix IV to the GPA listing publications utilized by States parties to the GPA for the publication of texts under paragraph 1 of article XIX of the GPA.

The Government is preparing to adopt an integrated conservation policy for cultural heritage.

This means that with the exception of IAPSO which carries out procurement activities for a diversified constituency of clients including non governmental and civil society organizations, procurement operations of the organizations are essentially geared towards their own administrative and field programme requirements, and this commonality should in principle justify a move towards ever more integrated procurement policies and services.