Transforming procurement systems
A strong national procurement system, built on sound ethical principles and managed by procurement professionals, is crucial to effective and accountable use of government funds.
We help governments to assess their existing capabilities and institutions and plan improvements in accordance with wider reform programmes and the desired pace of change.
We develop practical programmes to bring about change, combining experience as procurement practitioners with specialist expertise in human and institutional development, legal reform, diagnostics and monitoring.
We help to make procurement a professional practice by raising awareness of its strategic function in government and introducing innovations, such as professional certification and value-for-money assessments.
We help make scarce public funds go further by building professional, accountable and reliable procurement systems.
We do this through:
- Assessing existing systems and environments and planning an appropriate programme of reform
- Introducing structures, systems and procedures that ensure accountability, transparency and value for money
- Developing sound legal and regulatory frameworks, including laws, manuals and standard documents
- Building a highly motivated and professional procurement cadre
- Establishing benchmarks and monitoring performance - of individual transactions and entire national systems