Reforming Public Procurement

Abbreviations and acronyms

AP	Acquisitions Programme, Canada
APS	American Purchasing Society
ARI	Administración de Riesgos Institucionales (Institutional Risk Management Model), Mexico
BICRO	Business Innovation Center of Croatia
BPQR	Best price-quality ratio
CA	Contracting authority
CFE	Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Federal Electricity Commission), Mexico
CIPS	Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
CPBs	Central purchasing bodies
CR	Contract registers
CTRIA	Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency
DAE	Direction des Achats de l’État (State Purchasing Directorate), France
DAFP	Departmento Adiministrativo de la Función Pública (Department for Public Employment), Colombia
DEX IC	DEX, Innovation Centre, Czech Republic
Difi	Direktoratet for forvaltning og ikt (Agency for Public Management and eGovernment), Norway
DP	Departmental Plans, Canada
DPS	Dynamic Purchasing Systems
DRR	Departmental Results Reports, Canada
DS4P	Dynamic Sourcing for Panels, Australia
EC	European Commission
ERP	Enterprise resource planning
eSPap	Entidade de Serviços Partilhados da Administração Pública (Public Administration Shared Service Entity), Portugal
ESPD	European Single Procurement Document
EU	European Union
FA	Framework agreement
FAPIIS	Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, United States
FIDO	Federaal Instituut voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (Federal Institute for Sustainable Development), Belgium
GPP	Green public procurement
IT	Information technology
KONEPS	Korea ON-line E-Procurement System
KPIs	Key performance indicators
LCC	Life cycle cost
LPP	(Working Party of the) Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement, OECD
MAF	Management Accountability Framework, Canada
MAPS	Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems
MAS	Multiple award schedules
MEAT	Most economically advantageous tender
MECI	Modelo Estandar de Control Interno (Internal Control Standard Model), Colombia
MENA	Middle East and North Africa
MePA	Public Administration e-Marketplace, Italy
MIPG	Modelo Integrado de Planeación y Gestión (Integrated Planning and Management Model), Colombia
MNE	Multinational enterprises
MPU	Ministry purchasing units, Portugal
NAO	National Audit Office, United Kingdom
NAPP	National Agency for Public Procurement, Sweden
NDPC	National Database on Public Contracts, Italy
NAPP	National Agency for Public Procurement, Sweden
OAG	Office of the Auditor General, Canada
OCP	Open Contracting Partnership
OCDS	Open Contracting Data Standard
OJEU	Official Journal of the European Union
OSCE	Organismo Supervisor de las Contrataciones del Estado (Government Procurement Supervising Agency), Peru
PCI	Procurement Capability Index, New Zealand
PGC	Public Governance Committee, OECD
PIN	Prior Information Notice
PPI	Public procurement of innovative solutions, European Union
PPIRS	Past Performance Information Retrieval System, United States
PPS	Public Procurement Service, Korea
PRC	Peer Review Committee, Canada
PSC	Procurement Strategy Committee, Canada
PSPC	Public Services and Procurement Canada
PTAR	Programa de Trabajo de Administración de Riesgos (Working Programme of Risk Management), Mexico
RARR	Rzeszowska Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego (Rzeszow Regional Development Agency), Poland
RFI	Requests for information
SAI	Supreme audit institutions
SECOP	Sistema Electrónico para la Contratación Pública (Electronic System for Public Contracting), Colombia
SFP	Secretaría de la Función Pública (Secretariat for Civil Service), Mexico
SMEs	Small and medium-sized enterprises
SNCP	Sistema Nacional de Compras Públicas (National Public Procurement System), Portugal
TAIEX	Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument, European Commission
TBS	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
TED	Tenders Electronic Daily
TVEC	Tienda Virtual del Estado Colombiano (Virtual Store for the Colombian State), Colombia
UNITO	University of Torino, Italy
Vai	Virtual Assistant Interface, New Zealand
VPM	Vendor Performance Management, Canada