Transparency and Accountability in public procurements: the case of V4 countries
Event Announcement
Program
Venue
Participants and invited guests
:: Event Announcement/Invitation ::
Public procurement information in the EU member states are various, fragmented and mostly inaccessible for both business, academic and government actors. There's an obvious niche in the European public sector information market on public procurement and a clear demand for a structured, comparable, cross-country information pool. Our main goal is to enhance the transparency of public data as well as the comparability of country practices, procedures and therefore, to support systematic research on the underlying economic correlations. We would like to map the key elements in the national regulatory frameworks, to analyze the similarities and differences between the national tender systems, and respectively to concentrate on analyzing data concerning various sector-specific factors, variations in time, potential shifts in government priorities.
In the past two months, we conducted background researches together with our partners, and collected information on how public procurement data is accessible in the V4 countries.
On our workshop on the 16th of February 2012, our national experts will discuss the enforcement gaps, corruption and rent seeking factors in the national regimes, try to find best practices and risks in the national public procurement systems; conceptualize public-policy relevant applications; elaborate a public procurement index (PPI) as well as provide a guideline for the planned EU-wide database.
In the following weeks we will prepare a final study summarizing the consequences and results of the country papers and the findings of the workshop. Our long-term aim is to develop a common regional public procurement database which incorporates all the tenders carried out in the relevant countries.
Partner and participating NGOs and research institutes are the following: TI Slovakia, Stefan Batory Foundation from Poland, TI Czech Republic, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis and K-Monitor from Hungary.
:: Program ::
09:15 Registration
09:30–12:30 Morning Session: Country cases
- welcome by BI
- tour de table (introduction of partners and participants)
- discussion on the country questionnaires (opponent induced discussion on national cases)
- moderated panel: mapping enforcement gaps, corruption and rent seeking factors in the national regimes
in between 15 minutes coffee break
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:30–16:30 Afternoon session: Building a meta-database
- structuring and creating a meta-database on PP
- brainstormig on data-mining and data-gaps: best practices
- experiences with access to information
15 minutes coffee break
16:45–17:30 Brainstorming on follow-up (PPI index) and next round applications
19:30– Dinner (Szatyor Bár És Galéria, Budapest, Bartók Béla út 36.)
:: Venue ::
Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis
Budapest, Bartók Béla út 19., III. em. 26.
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:: Participants and invited guests ::
Stanislav Beránek, Transparency International Czech Republic
Sándor Léderer, K-Monitor Public Association, Hungary
Bartosz Majerski, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Petra Reszkető, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary
Ágota Scharle, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary
Gabriel Šípoš, Transparency International Slovakia
Tímea Sütő, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary
Balázs Váradi, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary
Orsolya Vincze, K-Monitor Public Association, Hungary
Péter Tausz, Transparency International Hungary
For more info, contact Orsolya Vincze at vincze.orsolya@k-monitor.hu.
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