Participation in Public Procurement Processes (MN0038)

Main objective:
Increase citizens and CSO participation in procurement, contract performance and contract reporting in health and road/transport sectors and improve effectiveness, efficiency and quality of major part of public finance spending.

Brief description of commitment:
Undertake intensive actions to create integrated database on concessional loan projects/programs, aid projects, and internationally funded programs/projects and to ensure transparency and information disclosure to the public, establish systems to reflect the public opinion in the loan and aid programs and enable participation of public and CSOs in the implementation and reporting of public procurement activities.

Ambition:
-All information on the status of contrac performance and all other data are managed through http://opendata.tender.gov.mn website in order to continue activities on making government's procurement information complian with international open contracting standard. Outcomes of civil and CSO engagement in procurement process reported to and discussed by stakeholders on semi-annual basis.
-"Participatory" sub-working group, designated to identify needs based on participatory monitoring, established and projects and activities for 201 S and 202 planned grounded on Community Score Card results.
-National Consulting Team, responsible for developing and guiding the participatory monitoring and oversight, established through selection in compliance with Articles 35- 39 of Law on Public Procurement.
-Participatory monitoring teams with aim to develop participatory monitoring methodology and plan for health and road/transportation sectors to be selected in each aimag and capital city, in accordance with Article 52.3 of Law on Public procurement.
-Mutual Fund established by generating funds equal to 0.01 % of the work and services of the sectors and financial incentives for ensuring civi and CSO participation created.
-Glass account portal, designated to receive opinions and feedback of citizens and legal entities and getting resolved by relevan authorities, established.

Milestones:
1. Manage all information on the status of contract performance and all other data in the http://opendata.tender.gov.mn
2. Report and discuss outcomes of civil and CSO engagement in procurement process to/by stakeholders on semi-annual basis
3. Establish "participatory" sub-working group, designated to identify needs based on participatory monitoring, and plan projects and activities for 2019 and 202 grounded on Community Score Card results.
4. Establish National Consulting Team, responsible for developing and guiding the participatory monitoring and oversight, through selection in compliance with Articles 35- 39 of Law on Public Procurement.
5. Select and establish participatory monitorinq teams for health and road/transportation sector procurement in each aimag and capital city, in accordance with Article 52.3 of Law on Public procurement.
6. Create Glass account portal, designated to receive opinions and feedback of citizens and legal entities and resolve issues and concerns by relevant authorities.
7. Manage all information on the status of contract performance and all other data through the http://opendata.tender.gov.mn website in order to continue activities on making the government's procurement information with international open contracting standard.
8. Report and discuss outcomes of civil and CSO engagement in the procurement process to/by stakeholders on semi-annual basis