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
How is the Caribbean different from other regions?
How is public procurement different in the Caribbean?
What is driving public procurement reform in the Caribbean?
What are the challenges going forward?

3. How is the Caribbean different from other regions?

4. How is the Caribbean different from other regions?

5. How is the Caribbean different from other regions?
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
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
Country
Under separate acts
Under review
Approved
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 Unit

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

15. Modernization of the State Specialist
Leslie Harper
Modernization of the State Specialist