Procurement Without Borders: Exchanging Contractor Qualification Information Internationally

March 3, 2023

https://youtu.be/iUgCibIVZQ4

Please join a special one-hour colloquium online, jointly organized by George Washington University Law School’s Government Procurement Law Program and Austria’s centralized Federal Procurement Agency, the Bundesbeschaffung Austria (BBG), to discuss how countries and their procuring agencies can exchange contractor qualification information, a vitally important topic in opening markets, fighting corruption and improving contract performance.

Program Slides

Over 400 webinar registrants from 77 countries around the world

Panelists

Gian Luigi Albano, a head of division at Italy’s centralized purchasing agency (Consip), will discuss practical hurdles, grounded in organizational theory, to exchanging contractor information between governments.

Lucian Cernat and Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova, senior economists at the European Commission, will discuss efforts by the Commission to ease exchanges of contractor information to reduce barriers to trade in procurement, and to improve trade analysis.

Mihály (Misi) Fazekas, assistant professor at the Central European University (Vienna) and scientific director of a think tank, the Government Transparency Institute, will discuss an innovative tool, TenderX, which assembles qualification information from multiple government sources around the world.

Lindle Hatton, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), will discuss coordination among U.S. states through NASPO ValuePoint contracts.

Kathrin Frauscher, Deputy Executive Director at the Open Contracting Partnership, will explain how procurement data can be made open, accessible and readable for use across multiple procurement systems.

Maria Swaby, Procurement Ombudsman and former Suspension & Debarment Official for the U.S. General Services Administration, who lectures on debarment and contractor qualifications at the GW Law School, will discuss how the US. Government makes contractor qualification information available through the System for Award Management (sam.gov) and related online platforms,

Moderators

Research Resources
OECD, Professionalising the Public Procurement Workforce (2023)
Past Webinars
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