This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the direction and leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and of János Bertók, Deputy Director, and the guidance of Paulo Magina, Head of GOV’s Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. The report was co-ordinated by Erika Bozzay, Deputy Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division and Matthieu Cahen, Senior Counsellor of the Public Governance Directorate. Giulia Morando, Anna Bilous, Tenzin Dekyi, and Sára Kende validated and analysed survey responses, formulated data inputs, and drafted the report. Inputs were provided by Jacobo García Villarreal, Kenza Khachani, Masayuki Omote, Simon Cox, and Sanda Jugo from the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. The report also benefitted from valuable comments from Claire Marguerettaz from the Directorate for Legal Affairs, as well as colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Division in the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. Editorial support was provided by Dovile Bogusyte.
Special thanks go to the delegates and senior public officials participating in the OECD Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement for implementing the Survey on Public Procurement that formed the basis of this report. The report also benefitted from the valuable inputs of the Competition Committee and the Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, directly involved in this exercise, as prescribed in the Recommendation.
The report integrates data and evidence collected through the Survey on Public Procurement conducted in 2024 to assess progress on the implementation of the Recommendation against its twelve principles and since the implementation of the previous edition of the survey in 2018. The data collection phase took place from June to November 2024. The questionnaire received responses from 35 Adherents (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, United Kingdom, and United States), and five non-Adherents (Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, and Romania).