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Republic of Armenia : Country Procurement Assessment ReportThis assessment reviews the current status of public procurement in Armenia and makes recommendations for further improvements. It also provides an update of the Country Procurement Assessment Report (CPAR) carried out in May 2004. The report includes an action plan to assist the Government of Armenia (GoA) in moving the procurement reform agenda forward. The assessment was carried out jointly with the counterpart team appointed by the Minister of Finance. The major procurement legislation and other procurement-related laws and decrees, and documents were analyzed and interviews were conducted with procuring entities, suppliers, contractors, consulting firms, civil society, and government officials. The benchmarking report provides a reference point for the GoA to monitor and measure improvements in the public procurement system, and to formulate a capacity development plan to move towards a sound procurement system that leads to economy and efficiency in public expenditure. Donors can use these results to develop strategies for assisting in procurement capacity building and to mitigate risks in their individual operations. In order to further broaden the perspective on the public procurement functions in Armenia and also to focus on certain specific areas of concern, case studies have been carried out on public procurement in health and transport sectors. In light of the GoA interest in introducing Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP), the team has also prepared a special study on the subject, using the readiness assessment guide of the multilateral development banks' e-GP working group. Case studies have also been prepared on anti-corruption measures, and public-private partnership, given the importance of these topics to public procurement.
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Republic of South Sudan : Country Integrated Fiduciary Assessment Southern Sudan, Volume 3. South Sudan Procurement Assessment ReportThe purpose of this Country Integrated
 Fiduciary Assessment (CIFA) is: (i) to assess the quality of
 public finance management and procurement systems in South
 Sudan; and (ii) to then determine the extent of fiduciary
 risk posed to domestic and external tax payers by the
 government's use of their funds through these systems.
 South Sudan has great potential for further increases in
 living standards, but achieving them will require large
 improvements in public services, both in access and in
 quality. In turn, Public Finance Management (PFM) and
 procurement systems need to be strengthened in order to
 improve public services; this will require linking spending
 more tightly to policy objectives and strengthening the
 operational efficiency of expenditures. In sum, strengthened
 PFM and procurement systems are not an end in themselves
 but, rather, the necessary means to achieving the ultimate
 objective: improved service delivery in South Sudan. This
 CIFA will be used by the Government of the Republic of South
 Sudan (GRSS) and by the country state governments to inform
 their design or reforms of PFM and procurement systems and,
 in the case of development partners, to inform their design
 or revision of technical and financial assistance programs
 and projects in support of the reforms.
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Republic of Sierra Leone : Assessment of National Public Procurement System Based on OECD/DAC Benchmarking ToolSierra Leone is a post conflict country with a population of 6 million in an area of 71,740 square kilometers. Since the end of hostilities in 2002, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Department for International Development UK (DFID), the European Union (EU), and the World Bank (WB) have played significant roles in supporting the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) to rebuild the country for a brighter future. With the demobilization process complete and significant progress in terms of reconstruction, rehabilitation, humanitarian relief and the reestablishment of public service delivery, the GoSL has been focusing reforming and strengthening its governance systems. This report takes stock of the progress for reforms in the procurement system since 2004 and sets out the next steps to ensure continued progress towards establishing a modern and efficient and accountable public procurement system. This CPAR is divided into various sections which cover country context, PFM and procurement reform history, government-donor collaboration, and relation to the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), the methodology used for this assessment, and the major findings and recommendations. The annexes present the detailed assessment report (using the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and DAC BLI (baseline indicator tool), the detailed recommended action plan, National Competitive Bidding (NCB) exceptions from to conform to the bank procurement guidelines, and other relevant documentation.