Under the direction and leadership of Marcos Bonturi, Director of OECD’s Public Governance Directorate and the guidance of János Bertók, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division, this report was co-ordinated by Paulo Magina, Head of the Public Procurement Unit and Fleur D’Souza, Senior Analyst on secondment from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand. Matthieu Cahen, Deputy Head of Public Procurement Unit, provided guidance and reviewed the report. Antoine Comps, Policy Analyst, contributed to the report, authoring a section, working on the survey responses and formulating data inputs. Preliminary work on building the evidence base was carried out by Minjoo Son, Policy Analyst. Inputs were also provided by Lena Diesing, Angelos Binis, Masayuki Omote, Tessa Cullen, Gavin Ugale, Felicitas Neuhaus from the Public Sector Integrity Division and Céline Folsché and Lawrence Pacewicz from the Legal Directorate. The report also benefited from valuable comments from Barbara Ubaldi, Head of the Digital and Open Data Team, Reform of the Public Sector Division.
Special thanks go to the delegates and senior public officials participating in the OECD Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement, the Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions and the Competition Committee, directly involved in this exercise, as prescribed in the Recommendation. The report benefited from a wide consultation across the OECD. It was prepared in consultation with the Environment Policy Committee (EPOC), the Economic Policy Committee (EPC), the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy, the Working Party of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators, the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), the Working Party of Senior Public Integrity Officials (SPIO), the Working Party of Senior Budget Officials (SBO), the Working Party on Public Employment and Management (PEM) and the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (SMEE).
The report integrates data and evidence collected through the “Survey on Public Procurement” conducted in 2016 on three main areas: policies to pursue secondary policy objectives, e-procurement and central purchasing bodies. In August 2018, a second questionnaire assessed progress on the implementation of the Recommendation against its twelve principles. The data collection phase took place from August to December 2018. The questionnaire received responses from 31 Adherents (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey), and three non-Members non-Adherents (Costa Rica, Morocco and Peru). It also benefited from a regional assessment on the implementation of the Recommendation in LAC countries, conducted in 2017/2018 by the Inter-American Development Bank in 16 countries from the region.