Under the direction and oversight of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance; Janos Bertók, OECD Deputy Director for Public Governance; and Edwin Lau, Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division of the Directorate for Public Governance, this review was co-ordinated by Paulo Magina, Deputy Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. The main author of this report is Masayuki Omote, Policy Analyst from the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. Laura Kuoraitė, seconded to the OECD from the Public Procurement Office of Lithuania, contributed inputs at the initial drafting stage. Justine Deziel provided editorial assistance.
The action was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by the OECD, in cooperation, with the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG Reform) of the European Commission. The OECD expresses its gratitude to the European Commission for their support to this project, particularly Mr. Daniele Dotto, Deputy Director of DG Reform and Head of Unit, Governance and Public Administration, Mr. Thomas Giacoletto and Ms. Alessandra Budello, policy officers at the same unit and coordinators of the project in DG Reform.
The OECD is particularly thankful to the Government of Lithuania for their commitment to this work and wishes to express its gratitude to all those who made this collaboration possible. In particular, the OECD expresses its gratitude to Ms. Erika Kurockina, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Economy and Innovation (MoEI), Lithuania, Ms. Aurelija Ylė, Head of the Public Procurement Policy Division, MoEI, Ms. Rima Ambrazevičienė, Advisor of the Public Procurement Policy Division, MoEI, Mr. Darius Vedrickas, Director, Public Procurement Office (PPO), Mr. Gediminas Golcevas, former Head of Methodical Assistance Division, PPO, Ms. Laura Kuoraitė, former Senior Advisor at Methodical Assistance Division, PPO and Živilė Cibutavičienė, former Senior Adviser, Methodical Assistance Division PPO, Ms. Neringa Andrijauskienė, Director, CPO LT, Ms. Vaida Vaitkevičiūtė-Daugvilė, Deputy Director, CPO LT, and Ms. Agnė Kaminskienė, Head of Law and Human Resources Division, CPO LT.
The engagement and consultation with key stakeholders of the public procurement system in Lithuania were critical for the successful completion of this review. The OECD would like to thank 99 public procurement officials in Lithuania that participated in the ProcurCompEU self-assessment survey from 6 CPBs: CPO LT, Asset Management and Economy Department under the Ministry of Interior, Prison Department under the Ministry of Justice, Kaunas City municipality administration, Vilnius City municipality administration and the Defence Resources Agency under the Ministry of National Defence. The OECD would like also to express its gratitude to the three contracting authorities that participated in the pilot projects of strategic procurement: Defence Resources Agency under the Ministry of National Defence, CPO LT, and Republican Vilnius University Hospital (RVUL). Finally, the OECD would like to thank Ms. Neringa Virbickaitė, Mr. Andrius Malvicas, and Mr. Virginijus Virbickas, the OECD local experts and co-ordinator, who supported the implementation of the project and the pilots.