BiP delivers in the Balkans
3 March 2008
BiP Solutions has been awarded the first stage of a major consultancy review of the Macedonian Public Procurement Bureau by The United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The project builds on recent international procurement consultancy projects
delivered by BiP in Kenya, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates. This
high-profile project will involve BiP procurement consultants delivering
the initial
three-month phase of a performance assessment for the Public Procurement
Bureau
(PPB) in the Macedonian capital of Skopje.
A senior BiP consultant will lead the team of performance experts on the ground in conducting a department-wide assessment of the target institution and its associated major stakeholders. Macedonia was recently ranked by the World Bank as the fourth best 'reformatory state' out of 178 countries, and has undergone major economic and political reforms since independence in 1991.
BiP will now contribute to the ongoing reforms and movement towards European Union accession by introducing best practice methods of procurement and bringing industry-renowned expertise to bear on the PPB.
BiP’s Procurement Advice and Support Service (PASS) has also been
tasked to
recommend and tailor tools for the performance assessment and augment the
Macedonian central procurement agency’s business process logic and
methodologies for all procurement conducted through this central government
body.
Project delivery begins in mid-March and will involve considerable groundwork
and resources to bring the PPB in line with its targets of better integrated
procurement, increased collaborative procurement, reduction of corruption
and the successful positioning of the Bureau as the model for best practice
procurement in the
country.
Following on from this project, there are considerable opportunities to deliver additional consultancy for both the PPB and USAID for the next stages of the project over the coming 18 months.
To discuss commercial opportunities with BiP, email: commercial@bipsolutions.com
