Guyana’s National Assembly approves procurement notices on web.
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A bill which allows for the publication of government procurement opportunities on a freely accessible website was unanimously passed by Guyana National Assembly.
While piloting the bill through the House, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said that the government has undertaken several measures to bolster the procurement process in the country. He stressed too that Guyana has modern procurement legislation which often leaves outsiders in awe.
The minister said the passage of the bill would be the first step towards achieving e-procurement.
For more information please visit:
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/stories/07/27/house-greenlights-procurement-on-web/.
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Security Cooperation Agreement between Microsoft and Consip
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Microsoft and Consip Spa, Italy’s IT services and procurement agency, have signed a Security Cooperation Program (SCP), the first such agreement struck by Microsoft with an Italian entity. Through the agreement signed by Danilo Broggi, CEO of Consip Spa, and Pietro Scott Jovane, CEO of Microsoft Italia, Consip will provide consultancy and support to Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance in the management of the Microsoft software purchased on behalf of Italian government bodies.
Another 44 institutions worldwide –ministries, national security agencies and CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Teams) –participate in the program.
The SCP is based on the cooperation between Microsoft and Governments and public bodies in charge of preventing cyber-attacks and entails the sharing of information that will increase the effectiveness of the processes that ensure the security of systems and software.
For more information please visit:
http://www.eng.consip.it/on-line/en/Home/Pressroom/articolo2535.html.
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UNCITRAL report on working group on procurement 18th session
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In 2004, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) started the revision of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services. To that purpose, the working group formed was given a flexible mandate to identify the issues to be addressed in its considerations, including providing for new practices in public procurement, in particular those that resulted from the use of electronic communications.
The Working Group held its eighteenth session in New York, from 12 to 16 April 2010. The session was attended by representatives of 30 of the States members of the Working Group, 5 international organizations and 5 non-profit groups. At its eighteenth session, the group continued advancing its work on the elaboration of proposals for the revision of the Model Law.
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| The 4th IPPC will be hosted in South Korea in August 2010 |
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The International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC 4) is a global forum that aims at gathering public procurement practitioners, researchers and academia from all countries to share their experience, knowledge as well as to discuss critical issues related to public procurement.
Since 2004, the Conference has been taking place on a bi-annual basis and is hosted by a different government each time (2004 – Florida, USA; 2- Rome, Italy; 3- Amsterdam, Netherlands). In August 2010, the 4th IPPC will be held in Seoul, South Korea.
This Forum is also an opportunity for those interested in public procurement to present research papers. Selected papers will be published in the Journal of Public Procurement (JoPP) and in a edited book that will be distributed at the end of the conference. The 2010 theme is “Towards New Frontiers in Public Procurement.”
For more information please visit: http://www.ippc2010.kr/
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Collusion and Corruption in Public Procurement
This note summarises Mexico’s experience in public procurement contracts from a competition policy prospective. Section 1 describes the relevance of public procurement in Mexico. In 2008, the Ministry of Public Administration registered 70,230 federal public procurement contracts adding up to USD59 billion. It is estimated that public procurement within government agencies, municipalities and state governments accounted for 18.4% of the country’s GDP.
The study also argues that although the Constitution mandates that public procurement procedures must guarantee that the State obtains the best available terms and conditions, in practice regulations focus too much on transparency and protection of domestic suppliers and too little on assuring a competitive outcome. In general, regulations lack the incentives to promote competition. This situation, in turn, may create extraordinary rents and increase the probability of corruption.
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Critical Success Factors for E-Tendering Implementation in Construction Collaborative Environments: People and Process Issues
Tendering with traditional methods, using paper and manual processing, represents elevated costs in production and logistics for the construction industry.
Information technologies present valuable opportunities to create collaborative environments, where team work generates synergy that enables a efficient, secure and immediate access to resources and information.
Choosing and implementing a system that enables collaborative working environments requires focus in two main factors in order to obtain maximum benefits; processes and people that execute them.
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Choosing Authentication Techniques in E-procurement System in Serbia
E-Government can provide a citizen with better and/or more convenient services as opposed to the traditional government services. Application of electronic approach in completing an e-Procurement process opens up a lot of issues regarding security.
The transparent nature of the process at hand is requiring a sophisticated security system. Unauthorized access or different kinds of intrusion present a legitimate threat. On the other hand, the attempt to develop such a system in developing countries like Serbia may face many difficulties. Some of the difficulties may be caused by legal obstacles, technical weaknesses, or human resistance towards change.
This paper presents a review of authentication techniques used in the European e-Government systems and according to that this paper is focused on the methods we used to overcome those difficulties, as well as on the provision of a strong security system that would guarantee the protection of sensitive data.
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