[open-government] Open Contracting and EU - does it match?

Thu Jul 4 17:05:57 UTC 2013

Thanks for sharing more about the work you are doing regarding EU
procurement data, Julia. Sounds very interesting and very relevant to the
work we've been doing on Open Contracting. Would be keen on hearing more
about the advocacy campaign you mentioned, as well as any findings you may
have from the analysis of the data.

Echoing some of your comments Julia, and in relation to a response we had
sent directly to Gerry, you are exactly right: the Open Contracting
principles took as inspiration many laws, regulations and policies from
around the world, covering procurement, private-public partnerships,
concessions, and extractive industries, including the EU directive on
transparency in public contracting (procurement and concessions).

As such, the principles are generally in line with the EU procurement
regime. If anything, in certain aspects they aim to go further as they are
meant to be guiding principles that will encourage governments and other
stakeholders to build upon their existing legal framework in the pursuit of
increased disclosure and participation in public contracting.

The Open Contracting principles were designed in the hopes they would serve
as a resource for all actors and all states seeking to advance Open
Contracting at all levels, not just fragile states and not just national
governments. I should also mention that French and Spanish translations
will be made available in the coming days. More than happy to receive any
and all feedback on all of these versions, as well as to hear any
requests/offers for crowd-translating into other languages as well.

In the meantime, in case it is of interest here's a blog post explaining
the principles<http://www.open-contracting.org/introducing_the_open_contracting_principles>
.

All the best,

Felipe

Felipe Estefan
Open Government
The World Bank
+1 (315) 420-7464
@FelipeEstefan

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Julia Keserű <
jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:

> Gerry,
>
> Sunlight Foundation and OKFN just started to analyze the quality of EU
> procurement data in Tenders Electronic Daily and the proposed new
> directives on procurements. We`re planning to come up with a set of
> recommendations and as far as we can tell, the EU procurement regime is in
> line with the OC principles so it seems worth promoting. But please give us
> a few more weeks to give you a proper answer though.
>
> By the way, as far as I know the OC principles and their guidelines<http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/opencontracting/pages/24/attachments/original/1372171467/Open_Contracting_A_guide_for_practitioners_by_practitioners-v2.pdf?1372171467> were
> originally meant for fragile states but the principles are broad enough to
> translate to other national (and local) contexts too.
>
> I was wondering if other folks would be interested in a joint advocacy
> campaign on EU procurement reform.
>
> Julia
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:15 AM, innovation consortium <
> innovation-navigator at chello.at> wrote:
>
>> Dear Felipe,
>>
>> could your experts on EU law elaborate first
>> whether these guidelines are inline with EU
>> procurement regime?
>> If not, it does not make sense to promote them in
>> Europe.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Gerry
>>
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>> An: Felipe Estefan
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>> Global Principles
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>> Dear Felipe,
>>
>> this is very interesting indeed. Thanks for
>> sharing!
>>
>> All best
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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>> On 20 Jun 2013, at 21:29, Felipe Estefan
>> <felipe.estefan.g at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > The Open Contracting Partnership is excited to
>> share with you the Open Contracting Global
>> Principles. These principles are intended to serve
>> as a guide for all those seeking to advance open
>> contracting around the world.
>> >
>> > The full text of the principles is available
>> here.
>> >
>> > The principles were created with the inputs and
>> feedback of nearly 200 members of the open
>> contracting community. We are incredibly thankful
>> to everyone from government, private sector, civil
>> society, donor and international organizations,
>> academia and media who has already contributed to
>> this process.
>> >
>> > As we continue to develop and improve these
>> principles, we would love to hear your comments
>> and feedback. Please send those to
>> partnership at open-contracting.com. Also, if you'd
>> like to join the conversation about the principles
>> on twitter follow @OpenContracting.
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> >
>> > Felipe
>> >
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