eProcurement in Developing Country Governments

Dear Friends, As you know, developing capacity is a vital step in creating the conditions under which the MDGs are likely to be achieved. Procurement of goods/services accounts for a significant amount of national expenditures (both domestically generated as well as received from ODA). In addition, good practices in procurement can result in significant cost savings that free up resources for other development purposes, and foster local economic development, growth and trade by improving the capacity of business to compete locally and internationally.

With this background, and in light of the commitment to increased reliance on national procurement systems made in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005), UNDP is undertaking a cross- practice project to look at how we can better support our partners in developing procurement capacity.

One part of this project, is to undertake research into eProcurement in developing countries. Whilst there is significant research into the use of eProcurement within the private sector, there has been very little carried out in the public sector in developing countries.

This survey asks for your input in some key fundamental factors influencing the possible uptake of eProcurement in the developing country government scenario. You do NOT need to have first-hand knowledge of eProcurement in order to complete this survey!

Please take the survey at this link: http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=218069

Should you have any queries or comments, please do not hesitate to contact Neil Donovan (neil.donovan@undp.org)