Home-Grown Concept of E-Procurement (GE0009)

Before 2003 public procurement was the safe haven of corrupt agreements in Georgia. This system was abandoned and a new platform for public procurement was introduced: http://www.procurement.gov.ge. Public procurement can be conducted exclusively online. There is zero possibility of corruption as the bidding process is being carried out online on the web-site and any interested party can follow it. The competitiveness is fully guaranteed.In order to maximise transparency, a Dispute Resolution Board was created with civil society being equally represented together with public officials.This innovative approach gave the State the possibility to save 202 million GEL of public money that amounts to 14% of the procurement budget.It is planned to further fine-tune the system and find new ways of balancing criteria of price and quality and improve the analytical module of the system.The Georgian Government uses an online platform and online bidding for auctions as well: http://www.eauction.ge. The principles are the same: full transparency, accessibility and equal competition. It is envisaged to make the e-auction system more user-friendly.