This review was prepared under the direction and oversight of Marcos Bonturi, OECD Director for Public Governance, and János Bertók, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The review was authored by a team of analysts in the Public Procurement Unit, headed by Paulo Magina, and beyond: Lena Diesing (also coordinator of this review), Antoine Comps, Carissa Munro, Petur Berg Matthiasson and Lara Gruben.
This review was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik and Thibaut Gigou. Nadjad Bacar, Gabriela Bejan, Aleksandra Bogusz, and Rania Haidar provided administrative assistance.
The OECD thanks the counterparts in Kazakhstan’s public administration for their cooperation: at the Ministry of Finance, notably Ruslan Beketayev, Sabit Akhmetov, Vladimir Magai, Chingiz Tashenev and Damir Sailaubek; at the Centre for Trade Policy Development, Bekzada Abilkassymov. Additionally, numerous experts throughout Kazakhstan’s administration, civil society, academia and private sector shared insights.
This review is part of a series of peer reviews on public procurement in OECD, G20 and non-member economies. It benefited from input from the Bureau members and senior public procurement officials who participated in the OECD Meeting of the Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement held in Paris on 29-31 October 2018, chaired by Dag Stromsnes, Chief Procurement Officer, Agency for Public Management and e Government (Difi) in Norway. Arita Ūdre, at the time Head of Administrative Penalties Department at Latvia’s Procurement Monitoring Bureau, participated as an OECD peer in the review.