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ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (e-GP) World Bank Draft Strategy The World Bank Procurement Policy Services Group Washington, D.C. Oktober 2003  Contents I. Executive Summary 3 1. Basics of e-GP 5 A. Definition of e-GP 5 B. Rationale 7 C. Critical Success Factors 10 Government Leadership 10 Policy Legal Framework 10 Institutional Change 11 Awareness Capacity Building 12 Technology 13 2. Strategic Approach 15 A. Procurement Policy and Process 15 Policy Issues 15 Process Issues 18 B. Strategic Framework 19 Policy Guidelines 20 Country-based Work 22 Procurement Operations Monitoring 23 Awareness Raising 23 Capacity Building 24 Harmonization 24 Executive Summary The adoption of electronic government procurement (e-GP) appears as an inevitable worldwide trend following the explosive growth of electronic commerce (EC) predicted to reach over US $12 trillion by 2006. Considering the inefficiencies of the present systems and the large purchasing power of governments, digital networking technology applied to public procurement presents opportunities for welfare gains that neither the private nor the public sector can afford to ignore. Governments can use the Internet to support the procurement process of specialized goods, works, and consulting services of high value and low volume (e-Tendering) or to purchase standard goods and services of low value and high volume (e-Purchasing). While e-Tendering follows the basic steps of tendering (e.g. online publication of procurement notice, download of bidding documents, online pre-bid conference, upload of bids, electronic bid opening), e-Purchasing systems can include the use of online catalogues, e-reverse auctioning, or e-Requests for Quotation/Proposals. However, e-Purchasing should start with a pre-qualification process which may use the e-Tendering approach to identify the pre-qualified supplier(s). Moving government procurement online leads to benefits for governments, suppli