Georgia : Country Procurement Assessment Report
In light of its strategy for an accelerated transition to a market economy, Georgia has made tremendous efforts to provide a legal base for the required changes, and has adopted a multitude of laws at a rapid pace, starting in 1993. With the notabl...
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| Format: | Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR) |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/06/7716913/georgia-country-procurement-assessment-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13885 |
| Summary: | In light of its strategy for an
accelerated transition to a market economy, Georgia has made
tremendous efforts to provide a legal base for the required
changes, and has adopted a multitude of laws at a rapid
pace, starting in 1993. With the notable exception of
enforcement provisions, the scope of existing Georgian legal
instruments, would be adequate to control the procurement
process in Georgia, if they were widely followed. The main
issue is not the lack of legislation, but rather the
effective application of the legislation that is already in
place. Nevertheless, the Government's determination,
and technical assistance provided under a Bank Institutional
Development Fund, public procurement is now guided by a
single overarching law. But, despite an acceleration in
establishing a sound legal framework, the procurement reform
agenda has not yet been completed, and procurement reform is
going very slowly. Within this context, this Country
Procurement Assessment Report (CPAR) recommends that: the
list of procurement, identified as relating to national
security, be cleared by the State Procurement Agency (SPA)
to ensure that Power Bodies procure general items in
accordance with the Law on State Procurement (LSP); foreign
bidders be allowed greater access, and open and restricted
bidding be more broadly applied; the state procurement
agency be given a truly independent status, beyond the reach
of influence of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade,
for it needs to be free to implement its mandate as a
regulating and monitoring body that ensures compliance with
the LSP. Given recent political developments to establish a
Cabinet of Ministers, the CPAR further recommends that the
current governance structure be reconsidered, and that the
SPA be put under the Cabinet's control, provided with
proper funding from the State budget, essential for it to
implement its functions successfully; and finally, the CPAR
recommends a full range of legal, regulatory, budgetary,
training, dissemination, audit reform, and value-shifting
measures to establish incentives for complying with the
procurement law in particular, and to foster the growth of a
culture of compliance in general. |
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