1. Challenges and opportunities: The Caribbean Approach to Public Procurement Reform Inter-American Network on Government Procurement Annual Conference Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic October 28-30, 2015

2. Objective of presentation I.How is the Caribbean different from other regions? II.How is public procurement different in the Caribbean? III.What is driving public procurement reform in the Caribbean? IV.What are the challenges going forward?

3. How is the Caribbean different from other regions?

5. Source: World Bank Development Report 2014

6. How is the Caribbean different from other regions? Source: World Bank Development Report 2014

7. How is public procurement different ? Source: Margaret Rose, 2014

8. How is public procurement different? Tender boards Line Ministry Service Unit Line Ministry Service Unit Service Center Line Ministry Service Unit Service Center

9. How is public procurement different? Public Procurement Operations and Market Administrative function Procurement operations Civil service Small relative purchasing power of each country. Few suppliers eGP

10. What is driving public procurement reform in the Caribbean? Focus on doing more with less – more efficient use of resources resources

11. What is driving public procurement reform in the Caribbean? Procurement Legislation CountryUnder separate actsUnder reviewApproved Antigua Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica Montserrat St. Kitts St. Lucia St. Vincent Suriname T&T

12. What is driving public procurement reform in the Caribbean? CARICOM World Trade Organization - GPA Commonwealth

13. What are the challenges going forward? Central PP unit Line Ministry Service UnitService Unit Line Ministry Service UnitService Unit Line Ministry Service UnitService Unit Line Ministry

14. What are the challenges going forward? Agreggation of demand

15. Leslie Harper Modernization of the State Specialist leslieha@iadb.org