Electronic Government Procurement: Strategy and Implementation

Dates:

• 5 - 9 May 2025 - Kigali (£2,450)
• 8 - 12 September 2025 - London (£2,850)

Course Outline

Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) systems have become an integral component of procurement reform for governments around the world as they move to institute efficient and transparent procurement systems that address issues of corruption.

These systems can deliver significant efficiency gains and financial savings for governments while enabling the provision of improved citizen services. The World Bank and all major donors are strong supporters of an e-GP roll-out.

This course identifies how paper-based public procurement systems can be transformed using e-GP, demonstrating how it can be used to optimise procurement performance and reduce bureaucracy for bidders by exploiting powerful ICT tools.

An essential course for all practitioners looking to introduce or improve an e-GP system.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 

On completion, you will be able to:

• Describe the end-to-end e-GP system model
• Assess your e-GP readiness and choose between standard or tailor-made systems
• Articulate e-GP business benefits and KPIs and develop an e-GP strategy
• Apply good practice change management to an e-GP project
• Plan effectively for an e-GP implementation
• Integrate e-GP with financial management systems (IFMIS)
• Procure an e-GP system provider and assess supplier performance
• Help tackle mistakes, irregularities and fraud using your e-GP system

Key Topics

• Understanding the key concepts of e-GP
• Assessing your readiness to adopt e-GP and creating a strategy
• Aligning business, e-GP and e-Government strategy
• Planning the procurement of an e-GP system
• ICT and e-GP foundations
• Risks, governance and legal frameworks
• System integration and modification
• e-GP system procurement
• Open Contracting and the Open Contracting Data Standard
• Compliance and complaints management