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Assessment Framework to Monitor and Evaluate e-Government Procurement Systems in IndiaThis 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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E-GP Functional SpecificationsAuthorities in developed and newly
 developing countries alike have been seeking to reform and
 strengthen the governance and management frameworks around
 their systems of public procurement. Their objectives have
 been to enhance effective management, reduce the risk of
 corruption, promote economic activity, and strengthen policy
 and strategic development. Increasingly an important part of
 these reforms has become the systematic application of
 technology to the processes of public procurement, including
 in the advertising of business opportunities, management of
 information and workflows, document delivery, purchase
 orders and transactions. This systematic application of
 technology to government procurement, or e-Government
 Procurement (e-GP), can lead to a substantial automation of
 the procurement process but requires significant reforms and
 process improvements in the management of procurement. These
 reforms have seen the introduction of new procurement laws
 and regulations, the introduction of new training for public
 procurement officers, changes in management procedures
 including standardization and simplification, and enhanced
 competition for government procurement opportunities.
 However one key issue deserves further attention namely
 defining the functional specifications of the e-GP system
 that is to be acquired or built, this is the subject of this
 paper. This paper seeks to give guidance on what functions
 and qualities they could seek from their e-GP system, or if
 they are engaging a third party provider then this may also
 give guidance on what capabilities they might require in
 their service level agreement
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Nepal : Electronic Government Procurement Readiness Assessment and RoadmapThe assessment focused on the degree of
 readiness of Government of Nepal's (GoN's) current
 public procurement environment for making a transition from
 a traditional paper-based, manual procurement transaction
 processing and communication to electronic government
 procurement (e-GP). Some 20 public and private sector
 organizations, involved in a wide range of functions that
 relate to public procurement, provided comment on the degree
 of readiness of nine key components related to e-GP:
 leadership, human resource planning, procurement planning
 and management, procurement policy, legislation and
 regulation, Internet and electronic infrastructure,
 standards, private sector integration, and current e-GP
 systems and initiatives. The assessment found: adequate
 evidence that an e-Tendering system is in place but is
 little used; some evidence that procurement legislation and
 procurement planning is in place and being supported, and
 that some procurement training has been conducted; and
 limited evidence that leadership, human resource planning,
 procurement management, regulation, and Internet
 infrastructure services are in place and being supported.
 The Roadmap sets out the features for a comprehensive e-GP
 service including e-Tendering, e-Purchasing, e-Reverse
 Auctioning, and a Procurement Information and Management System.