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Botswana's Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) has introduced e-bidding, dovetailed to the Integrated Procurement Management System (IPMS), to address corruption in government tenders.

The e-bidding rollout is part of the second phase of the PPADB's IPMS project, launched in 2013, to facilitate contractor registration nationally.

Government will take a giant step in cleaning up its slow and bureacratic procurement system by kicking off a pilot electronic procurement system in two districts mid next year.

Architects say the move is aimed at curbing corruption, which is rampant in government ministries, departments and agencies. Also, the East African bloc is vying to have an e-procurment system rolled out throughout the region.

Over 1,000 procurement professional from 33 departments access this portal to advertise upcoming tender opportunities, to search, select and evaluate suppliers and to award contracts. The entire process is managed online, providing buyers and prospective suppliers with the most efficient, effective and transparent means of interaction with Government entities.

The project was presented at a briefing by deputy Prime Minister Gazmend Oketa, and is supported by the United Nations within the framework of its Millennium Development Goals.

According to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., state offices have been directed to source all their common-use supplies directly from the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management or from its regional depots throughout the country.

According to the report, EPS users, businesses and contracting authorities evaluated the system as both effective and user-friendly, particularly in terms of savings in time and money, transparency and secure procedures. Yet internet service, particularly outside Tirana, remains an issue. The report was conducted with the support of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Albania Threshold Program II (MCCA2), administered by USAID.

The Government today responded to findings of a Commission of Audit it established in mid-2011 to improve public sector management and governance (pdf).

Audit documents (pdf), released today, included 132 recommendations, including that ICT procurement practices be reviewed and improved to support government priorities.

The NSW Government will be making changes to its ICT procurement process, following recommendations from the Commission of Audit.

In a report released last week, the Commission looked at NSW's overall spending, making 132 recommendations, of which a handful were ICT-related.

The Victorian Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips is calling upon the IT industry to weigh in on its plans to overhaul the way the state government procures IT services.

The Victoria government has launched a new cloud-powered system for ICT procurement. The new eServices Register will be used by all government departments and agencies in the state and replaces the old eServices Panel.

“The eServices Register will provide a simplified process for Victorian ICT companies bidding for government work, and allow the Victorian government to make more informed purchasing decisions from a greater range of suppliers as well as monitor the range and scope of eServices engagements,” Victoria technology minister, Gordon Rich-Phillips, said at an Australian Information Industry Association event in Melbourne.

The Victorian Coalition Government sought industry feedback on a plan to overhaul ICT procurement by government departments and agencies. The state government plans to move to an eServices register by July 2013.

“Every year Victorian government departments and agencies make a substantial investment in technology services,” said the government’s Assistant Treasurer, Gordon Rich-Phillips, at the 2012 iAwards in Melbourne. “A report into the eServices panel set up by the former Labor Government found the panel lacked visibility and transparency, resulted in lengthy tender processes, incomplete expenditure reporting and poor evaluation of life cycle costs and benefits.”

This e-procurement effort, spearheaded by the Department of State Development, Business and Innovation, underscores moves to go “digital,” while using cloud offerings to manage ICT operational costs.

Assistant Treasurer Gordon Rich-Phillips said the Victorian Coalition Government would replace the current eServices Panel with an eServices Register.

The change has been recommended by a joint industry and government working party, appointed last November to review the way government procures its information communication technology (ICT) services.

It was the kind of launch that ministers love: full of cutting-edge technology, fulfilling a sense of fiscal responsibility and promising hefty cost savings . . . enthusiasm over the launch of Victorian e-procurement system EC4P gave the distinct impression that the government was sure it had finally hit on a winner.

The Victorian State Government’s ICT reforms agenda will see the scrapping of a controversial e-Services Panel, to be replaced by an e-Services Register.

This new register, to be fully operational in 2013, will be mandated for use by all government departments and agencies.

“The eServices Register will provide a simplified process for Victorian ICT companies bidding for government work, and allow the Victorian Government to make more informed purchasing decisions from a greater range of suppliers as well as monitor the range and scope of eServices engagements”, said Gordon Rich-Phillips, Technology Minister of Victoria.

Agency’s director Iskander Chadirli says that they would like to introduce system of electronic state procurement already in 2010 but this project is a component of e-Government Program in Azerbaijan.

Die Staatliche Vermögens- und Hochbauverwaltung, die Straßenbauverwaltung sowie das Logistikzentrum Baden-Württemberg werden gemeinsam mit dem Staatsanzeiger-Verlag die Vergabe von öffentlichen Aufträgen des Landes auf elektronischem Wege weiterentwickeln. Bis 2010 sollen die Vergabeverfahren vollständig elektronisch durchgeführt werden. Das neue Verfahren ermöglicht es, neben der elektronischen Erstellung und Bereitstellung der Vergabeunterlagen und der Vergabebekanntmachungen künftig auch die Angebotsabgabe, die Eröffnung der Angebote (Submission) und deren weitere Auswertung am Computer abzuwickeln. Für die Angebotsbearbeitung und digitale Unterzeichnung der Angebote wird der Staatsanzeiger-Verlag den interessierten Unternehmen die entsprechende Software zur Verfügung stellen.

The Tender Board and the eGovernment Authority (eGA) launched the first phase of the eTendering System, which will initially enable government departments to prepare application documents, submit tender documents and allow suppliers and contractors from the private sector to purchase documents through it.

It was unveiled in a ceremony held under the patronage of Deputy Premier and Supreme Committee of Information and Communication Technology chairman Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa.