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Reforming Public Procurement

Progress in Implementing the 2015 OECD Recommendation

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This report presents progress made by OECD countries and other economies on their adherence to the 2015 Recommendation of the Council on Public Procurement. The Recommendation provides strategic guidance in addressing challenges encountered in public procurement and identifies good procurement practices in order to ensure a strategic and holistic use of public procurement. This report discusses the Recommendation's continued relevance, how widely it has been disseminated, and whether it requires updating or revision.

English Also available in: French

Strategic uses of public procurement to achieve broader policy outcomes

This chapter describes the significant role that public procurement can have in leveraging secondary policy objectives. It assesses the extent to which Adherents are balancing the pursuit of such secondary policy objectives against the primary procurement objective of achieving value for money. The analysis focuses on the trade-offs that Adherents are making throughout the procurement lifecycle to realise the desired outcomes from the application of broad strategic policy objective. The chapter includes an assessment on the existence of strategies on Green public procurement, innovation goods and services, support to small-to-medium enterprises (SMES), responsible business conduct, and women owned enterprises.

English Also available in: French

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