On December 1, 2023, Justin Kaufman, Chief Legal Officer of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), and GW Law’s Christopher Yukins took part in a U.S. Commerce Department – Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) briefing to a Moldovan Procurement Delegation at the Millennium Hotel Downtown in New York City.
The briefing focused on:
- Building Capacity – Professionalization
- Public-Facing Messaging
- Professional Focus on Risk Management
- Centralized Procurement
- Value for Money – Key Drivers
- Contract administration
Resources
- Moldova’s Public Procurement Law – Law No. 131 (2015) (with updates)
- World Bank, MAPS Assessment of Moldova’s Public Procurement System (2021) (“The main findings of the assessment reflect the situation with respect to the following critical issues . . . completing and harmonising the legal and institutional framework; strengthening and promoting the procurement profession; enhancing the planning and preparation stages of the procurement process; improving the adequacy, efficiency and transparency of the evaluation and award process; strengthening contract management and monitoring public procurement outcomes. . . . Enhancement of e-procurement would be one of the major means for addressing many of these points, which should be done in parallel with measures to raise transparency and improve integrity in public procurement.”).
- Moldova Ministry of Finance, MTender System
- Victor Nestulia, Open Contracting Partnership, Opening up Moldova’s contracts. Progress and challenges (11 Dec. 2019)
- OECD, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, MTender digital procurement system – Moldova (2017) (review of Moldova’s electronic procurement system, MTender).
- OECD, Managing risks in the public procurement of goods, services and infrastructure (June 2023) (discussing how procurement and compliance rules align with principles of risk management)
- Daniela Panus, Presentation: Debarment Procedures in Moldova (Dec. 2018) (English translation – machine translation) (part of earlier CLDP training) (describes bases and processes for adding vendors to the list of prohibited entities).