Commitment 8

Commitment #8: STRENGTHENING TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Description

Enhancing transparency in public procurement by promoting: the publication of open data on the entire public procurement cycle; free competition and competitiveness; the development and implementation of civic monitoring mechanisms.

The detailed version of this Commitment can be consulted here.  

Progress

Subtitle

Milestone 1 - Implementation of the OCDS in the BASE Portal and the Public Procurement Observatory.

Milestone 2 - Make all contracts open by default and public through their availability in the BASE Portal.

Milestone 3 - Make eProcurement platforms truly empowering of free competition and competitiveness.

Milestone 4 - Publication and public disclosure of all procedural documents relating to all phases of contracts signed by Direct Award.

Milestone 5 - Develop and apply tools to encourage civic participation and civic monitoring (e.g., Integrity Pacts, hackatons, etc.).

DOCUMENTATION

Status Reports

Assess the possibility that framework activities not fully implemented in this Commitment could be included in a forthcoming action plan, defining a clear scope, ownership, roles and responsibilities, setting the objectives to be achieved and indicators to use to monitor its progress.

This commitment was considered by the Independent Report Mechanism - independent assessment of the Portuguese stake in OGP - as a star commitment, i.e, a potentially transformative commitment.

NOTE: TI-PT compiled a brief report with updated comments on the implementation of commitments # 7 and # 8 of the I National Open Administration Plan, which can be found here.

Minutes of Meetings

Meeting on May 16th, 2019

Photos

N/A

Planned Activities

Promote a working meeting between AMA, TI-PT and IMPIC to assess the state of the commitment and consider whether its milestones could be included in a forthcoming action plan.