Policy, Regulatory and Capacity Building Technical Cooperation in the Context of Government Procurement Agreement Accession

Project ID: 50084

Title: Policy, Regulatory and Capacity Building Technical Cooperation in the Context of Government Procurement Agreement Accession

Description: The main objective of the Assignment is to work with the Prozorro Project team and develop procedures compliant with new legislative framework and legal and institutional requirements of the WTO GPA accession, including public procurement review and remedies procedures. The Consultant is also expected to contribute to technical cooperation of the EBRD with Transparency International Ukraine.

The expected outcome of the Assignment is introducing all the changes necessary to implement the WTO GPA standards into electronic procedures and ensuring accurate reporting on public procurement in Ukraine covered by the GPA obligations.

The full scope of activities under the Assignment is to be developed during inception mission with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, provisionally scheduled for March 2016; however the following activities are envisaged to implement the Assignment objectives thus far:

a) Legal compliance diagnostics. This will involve assessment of the legislation adopted in the context of the WTO GPA accession to take stock of what has been achieved and identify any remaining areas for improvement;
b) Assessment of GPA implementation in electronic procedures. This will entail assessing the extent of existing procedures in the GPA context and identifying any impediments to implementing obligations arising from the GPA;
c) Further reform agenda development. On the basis of the needs assessment, a work plan for further reform will be developed, to include (i) policy, (ii) regulatory, (iii) institutional and (iv) capacity building components;
d) Collaboration with Transparency International Ukraine and local stakeholders. This will entail contributing to the Transparency International Ukraine work on monitoring electronic public procurement procedures and ensuring GPA requirements are taken into consideration in implementing new monitoring procedures for public procurement in Ukraine.

Duration: 12 months