Assessment Framework to Monitor and Evaluate e-Government Procurement Systems in India
This working paper elaborates on an assessment framework to monitor and evaluate e-government procurement systems in India. This is relevant due to the fact that many government agencies have sought to extend use of e-tendering system implemented i...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/18537825/assessment-framework-monitor-evaluate-e-government-procurement-systems-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16985 |
| Summary: | This working paper elaborates on an
assessment framework to monitor and evaluate e-government
procurement systems in India. This is relevant due to the
fact that many government agencies have sought to extend use
of e-tendering system implemented in their organization to
handle procurement in World Bank funded projects. The World
Bank has developed a procedure to assess e-tendering systems
for compliance to certain guidelines laid down by
Multilateral Development Banks. The World Bank prefers to
work with the Government of India in development of a robust
mechanism for assessment of e-tendering systems instead of
independently assessing e-tendering systems as has been done
till date. The Government of India has already established a
set-up under Standardization, Quality and Testing
Certification (STQC) for assessment of e-procurement
systems. From its assessment experience, the World Bank has
found that the e-procurement applications deployed in many
of the e-procurement installations assessed by the Bank were
STQC certified, yet there were several issues with the
e-procurement systems. A new concept model for assessment of
e-procurement systems is proposed herein as an evolved
version of the existing STQC s guideline to address the
critical issues identified and the improvements suggested to
the STQC s guideline. The assessment framework explained in
this report could also be used as a vehicle to implement
policy in other federated e-governance systems such as
e-District and State Data Center (SDC). Therefore, the
assessment framework concept explained herein has wider
application in implementation of e-governance policy. |
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