Introduction of e-procurement in Georgia: goals, results, further activities

Introduction of e-procurement in Georgia: goals, results, further

activities

Tbilisi, November, 2010

Aims

Minimization of tender participation costs;

Efficient and transparent use of public funds;

Fair and unbiased evaluation process;

Easy access to all procurement related information;

Streamlining of procurement procedures;

Increased competition.

Polls by GTZ and GEA on E-procurement Awareness

Factors preventing a participation of companies in public procurement at the moment:– Too much documentation/information requested (70%).– Costs and technical requirements for participation in

procurement too high (72%).– Uneasy access to procurement information (54%).– Lack of transparency for 59% (although no appeals).

– Procurement information not correctly formulated (50%).– Procurement officers with insufficient quality of response

(26% in Tbilisi, 70% in Imereti).

– Handling of payments too long (70%).

Polls by GTZ and GEA on E-procurement Awareness

Introduction of e-procurement largely unknown (82%):

– for procurement information, companies in Tbilisi use Internet and “24 hours” and companies in Imereti mouth-to-mouth and “24 hours”.

– SPA website is known by 66% in Tbilisi and 14% in Imereti. – in Tbilisi, 83% would focus on the available SPA information

(manual, video tutorial). In Imereti, 43% would prefer personal advisory in the region.

Internet connectivity: 93% in Tbilisi, 30% in Imereti.

Credit-card rate momentarily 40% in Tbilisi and 3% in Imereti.

Main results (cont.)

Tender fee decreased 4 times – GEL 50 (instead of GEL 200);

Tender threshold decreased 20 times;

Non-competitive procurement procedures are merely used;

Significant decrease of administrative and logistic expenses.


Online purchase/ no need for written contract;

Less formalities/no need to obtain/submit documents from other state bodies, proving qualitative data;

Only the winning bidder has to submit mentioned documents.


Objective and quantifiable evaluation criteria - price;

Pass/fail for others (delivery time; relevant experience; turnover, etc.);

Web-payment of tender participation fee;

SPA – more service oriented (e.g. e-mail notification);

Ex ante prevention vs. ex post enforcement;

Current activities

Integration of annual plans and quarterly reports modules into the system;

Business Intelligence module;

Electronic dispute review board/Civil society participation in decision making;

Introduction of HR management system/ restructuring of SPA;

Training of trainers/ User manual

Planned Activities

Trainings for Procuring Entities Using Distance Learning Technologies;

Deployment of E-document flow in SPA;

Notifying about Announced Tenders using Electronic Means;

Deployment of Web-Payment System for Bid-Bonds

Tender procedures (on paper)

Tender procedures (on paper)

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Streamlined e-tender procedures

e-Tender

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