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Title: REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENHANCING INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT


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REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENHANCING INTEGRITY IN
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  • The role of new technologies in public procurement

Caroline Nicholas UNODC/UNCITRAL Rabat, Morocco 3
April 2008
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • UN Convention Against Corruption
  • Article 9 requirements for procurement systems
  • Transparency, competition and objective criteria
    in decision-making

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • UNCAC Requirements mean
  • Legislative framework
  • Regulations
  • Institutional, administrative and legal
    infrastructure

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • Legislative framework
  • UNCITRAL 1994 Model Law on Procurement
  • In process of revision (UNCAC compliant)
  • e-communications/e-procurement to be introduced
  • Similar provisions in other international texts

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • E-procurement why?
  • Efficient new procurement methods
  • Opportunity to achieve many procurement
    objectives
  • More information, better controls
  • Major potential benefit - enhanced transparency

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • How to translate good intentions into results
  • Not enough to create a website
  • Vital to integrate procurement, accountability
    oversight systems
  • Vital role of transparency

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • UNCITRAL Model Law revisions
  • E-communications
  • Functional equivalent approach
  • Writing, signature, record or meeting can be by
    e-communication
  • Legal recognition not in Model Law in
    e-commerce laws

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • E-communications under UNCITRAL
  • Means of communication chosen by procuring
    entity,
  • No justification, but safeguards
  • Approach allows e-tenders

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • Safeguards under UNCITRAL
  • Choice of communications subject to
    non-discrimination provisions
  • readily capable of being utilized with those in
    common use by suppliers or contractors
  • Means of communication set out in solicitation
    documents
  • Measures to ensure authenticity, integrity and
    confidentiality required

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • Electronic reverse auction (ERA)
  • Bidding prices down over the Internet
  • Commonly used, regulation varies
  • Auctions not previously permitted under Model Law

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • Transparency provisions (1)
  • In solicitation documents
  • Criteria to determine the successful bid
  • Price/non-price criteria
  • Relative weight of criteria
  • Mathematical formula

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • Transparency provisions (2)
  • In solicitation documents
  • Any limits on numbers
  • Initial bids required
  • Other/elsewhere
  • All other relevant information (list?)

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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The role of new technologies in public procurement
  • E-procurement useful new tool
  • E-procurement reform process
  • Not just replacing letters with emails
  • http//www.unodc.org/
  • http//www.uncitral.org/

UNODC United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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