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Tackling corruption at its source

Alain Nkoyock, PhD, Chief, Corporate Networks Unit, ITS, UNOV/UNODCShadi Al Abani, Systems Development Specialist, Team Leader, ITS, UNOV/UNODCJulia P. Davis, JD, Director, Center for Public Procurement Law & Policy, ILI (U.S.)

goPRS Suite of Software

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goPRS Enterprise

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• Enhances the ability of BPP to monitor

individual procurements and review

specific contract awards which fall

above prior review thresholds.

• Increases the efficiency of the

procurement process in terms of both

time and money and ensures that each

procurement action follows the

principles of accountability, fairness,

transparency, and equality.

• Applies workflow logic to standardize

the processes and tasks within BPP.

goPRS Enterprise

• Automates task assignment

for all processes and track

progress.

• Integrates various useful

tools: commodity pricing

catalogue, vendor

database, MDAs database,

and projects database.

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goPRS Web

• Request collection software that allows

procuring entities to submit requests for

approval to the regulatory authority to

undertake a procurement action.

• Ensures that files submitted to the regulatory

authority for approval are complete and comply

with legal requirements.

• Standardization increases the efficiency of the

procurement process in both time and money

and ensures that each procurement complies

with the BPP Act 2007.

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goPRS Web - Performance Monitoring & Evaluation Module

• Available for the Advisor of the

President.

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goPRS Intelligence

• There are various types of Offences in PP sphere:

1) Collusion, unlawful influence, undue interest, favour, fraudulent agreement, bribery or corruption;

2) Directly or indirectly or attempting to influence the procurement process to obtain an unfair advantage

in the award of a contract;

3) Splitting of tenders to enable evasion of monetary thresholds set.

•Evidence-based tool (different from anecdotal-based) that collects and analyzes data to detect

suspicious actions and patterns that indicate possible corruption and to provide more solid and

actionable indicators of fraud and corruption method

•Gathers data and knowledge of corruption patterns and modalities in procurement by focusing on

understanding a procurement entity's actual experience of corruption and the areas it is vulnerable to

corruption.

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goPRS Learn

• Provides online education opportunities to procurement

officials and employees.

• Includes web-based training through virtual classrooms

with asynchronous feedback of participants.

• With this online learning environment, there is shift from

teacher-directed lessons to include discussions that

emphasize student participation on public procurement

processes

• The goPRS Learn platform will be used in BPP training

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goPRS eGP

• Electronic government procurement (eGP) refers to the conduct of procurement through ICT

• Provides comprehensive up-to-date data on expenditures and activities to be used as the basis

for informed business decisions.

• automatically ensures compliance with procedural and substantive standards and provides a

simultaneous ready-for-audit record of all purchasing. 

• identifies deviations and patterns of activities that indicate risks of fraud and corruption and

decreases opportunities for collusion by reducing the number of human contacts.

• Provides the means for wide spread introduction of standard bidding documents including

standard forms of contracts to establish uniformity in the bidding process.

• An advertising space for government agencies for requests of proposals, invitations for bids and

requests for quotations.

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goPRS Main Features (1/3)

• Oversight:

– enhance the ability of BPP to oversee and monitor individual

procurements and to review specific contract awards which fall above

prior review thresholds (the issue of cumulative contracts needs to be

borne in mind i.e. where framework agreements are used)

– increase the efficiency of the procurement process in terms of both

time and money and to ensure that each procurement follows the PPA

2007 principles of accountability, fairness, transparency and equality

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goPRS Main Features (2/3)

• Management and Monitoring:

– organize data and information to provide MDAs with the information

needed to better manage the procurement process as a whole.

– By identifying inefficiencies, gaps and redundancies in procurement

procedures, efficiencies in both time and money can be achieved.

– Importantly, MDAs will be able to reference pricing data and access

information on the eligibility and qualifications of specific bidders.

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goPRS Main Features (3/3)

• Prevention and detection:

– gather data and knowledge of corruption patterns and modalities in

procurement by focusing on understanding the actual experience of

corruption, its forms and the areas of vulnerabilities.

– goPRS is an evidence-based tool that collects and analyzes data on

patterns of unexpected prices or other information to provide more

solid and actionable evidence of possible corruption and its nature.

– The goal of goPRS is not to simply score or rank, but rather to produce

information for analysis, management and decision-making to obtain

greater value for money and to deter fraud and corruption.

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Take Away 1: Main Features of goPRS suite of Software

• goPRS is a fully integrated software designed specifically to:

– Improve BPP’s internal review and monitoring of the procurement approval

process

– Reduce human interaction and personal contacts between procurement officials

(MDAs) and BPP staff

– Kick-off oversight on budget appropriations versus reported procurement actions

– Manage and publish procurement-related information (vendors database, prices

lists) to assist suppliers in preparing their best offers and governments in

assessing them to support the procurement process.

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Take away 2:Potential Benefits of goPRS

• Transparency, participation and competition:

– publishing the rules of the system allow more relevant information to

be made available at reasonable cost than previously; it can give

better market access as the market is opened up to entrants that

might not otherwise participate

• Enhanced administrative efficiency (time and costs)

• Process efficiencies with the development of the workflow

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Take away 3:Potential Benefits of goPRS

• Supporting integrity and preventing corruption:

– Reducing human interaction and the personal contacts between procurement

officials and BPP that can give rise to bribery opportunities

– A more strategic approach to procurement: using data gathered through goPRS

to allow performance to be guided by information and analyses (comparison of

budget appropriations and procurement actions, performance of MDAs and

procurement officials, etc.)

– Traceability – i.e. records of each procurement process – gives the ability to

monitor, evaluate and improve not only individual procurement procedures but

overall system performance and trends, and to detect and prevent corruption.

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