Task Force on Procurement: Overview

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Cuzco, Peru, 4-6 May 2011

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Procurement is:

identifying needs
determining who can best supply what is needed
ensuring that what is needed is delivered to the right place, at the right time, for the best price, in a fair and open manner

Millennium Development Goal 2: Universal primary education

To enable children everywhere to complete primary education, we need: quality buildings, roads, teachers and text books.

To achieve this goal, donor and partner governments have to commit and deliver funds. Reliable procurement processes are the bridge between commitment and delivery: ensuring that funds are transformed into the quality buildings, roads, teachers and textbooks that are needed.

Reliable procurement systems are central to public service delivery

The OECD/DAC has developed tools to help countries identify weaknesses in their procurement systems and create action plans to address these weaknesses using capacity development strategies.

Methodology for the Benchmarking and Assessment of Public Procurement Systems (pdf. 517.5 kB), July 2006, which include both the baseline Indicators (BLIs) and the Compliance and Performance Indicators (CPIs).

Methodology for the Assessment of Procurement Systems MAPS (pdf, 446.2 kB), December 2009, which include only the BLIs and was developed as a tool for participants in the 2011 Monitoring Survey

Partner countries are encouraged to make use of these tools and donors and development partners should support this work in order to increase their use of these procurement systems. Access the special site of country procurement assessments received from partner countries.

Additional resources: Links and documents

2011 Procurement Training Calendar

2011 Procurement Training Catalogue

Capacity Development Guidelines for Public Procurement

This new generation capacity development guide includes all five steps of the Capacity Development process including capacity development plans and measuring. It has been developed by the PCDC team based on fieldwork in countries including Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh and Benin.

These guidelines have also been integrated with the OECD DAC Methodology for Assessment of Procurement Systems (MAPS) benchmark.

ODI: What do Public Financial Management Systems tell us about PFM reforms?

This paper reviews sources of data on Public Financial Management performance and considers what we know about factors that influence PFM reform and what the implications are for future reform efforts.

Compendium of Country Examples and Lessons Learned from Applying the Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement Systems - Volume 1 (pdf 1.69Mb)

This paper presents the experiences and the lessons learned by 22 partner countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia related to the application of the Methodology for the Assessment of National procurement Systems of the OECD/DAC Joint Venture on Procurement.

Also available in: Français (pdf, 2.0 MB) l Español (1.7 MB)

Methodology for the Assessment of National Procurement Systems (Special site)

22 pilot countries have been participating in this Pilot Exercise since early 2007; the countries agreed to submit and share with others their reports on applying the assessment methodology and in using the results of the assessment.

Also available in français español

Reliable Procurement - It Adds Up (pdf 1.33Mb)

Answers to questions about the importance of procurement in development.

Arusha Statement (pdf, 563 kB)

To support the implementation of the Paris Declaration principles by building reliable public procurement systems.

Also available in: Français l Español

OECD DAC Roundtable Initiative

Other procurement-related websites

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