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Open Contracting in Ukraine: a collaborative effort for procurement reform

24 June 2015 | Wednesday
URE Club

Recent studies and surveys clearly indicate that the current Ukrainian procurement system is very ineffective, prone to corruption and kickbacks. As a result, the government, in strong collaboration with the private sector and civil society, is conducting a major procurement system reform.  The eProcurement initiative, later called ProZorro, emerged in July 2014.


As of today more than 80 procuring entities joined ProZorro and are now conducting their under-threshold procurement through the system. The number of electronic procedures already amounts to 580 with the starting price of 565 Million Hryvnias.


Average savings is 12% and the number of signed contracts is 120. Support to the development of ProZorro and its nationwide rollout is one of the priority reforms according to Ukraine Strategy 2020. It is expected that by January 2016 all procuring entities will join ProZorro and the tenders below the EU thresholds (representing approximately 90% of all procurements) will be completed through ProZorro.


Use of e-signature is not mandatory for suppliers’ registration or for the bid submission;

 

Reverse auction is part of the tender, but the bidders are free to decide whether participate or not;

 

Winners are identified using pass/fail criteria. Sequential evaluation of the lowest bid is required. This means that bidders are not evaluated all at once, but the rather one by one, starting with the lowest bidder. If the bid complies with the technical and qualification requirements, it is deems to be the winner;

 

Any registered user can request the clarification of tender documents, using electronic Q&A module. The relevant procuring entity is obliged to post the clarification in due time;

 

Any registered user can appeal any active tender, using the electronic appeal module. Appeal shall be considered in reasonably short period of time. Standstill period for contract awarding is used.

 

Source: http://www.open-contracting.org/open_contracting_in_ukraine_a_collaborative_effort_for_procurement_reform


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