Procurement Without Borders: Exchanging Contractor Qualification Information Internationally

Fri, 3 March, 2023 9:00am - 10:00am
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Please join a special one-hour colloquium online, jointly organized by George Washington University Law School’s Government Procurement Law Program and Austria’s centralized Federal Procurement Agency, the Bundesbeschaffung Austria (BBG), to discuss how countries and their procuring agencies can exchange contractor qualification information, a vitally important topic in opening markets, fighting corruption and improving contract performance.


Speakers

Moderators
  • Uwe Flach, BBG
  • Gabriella Racca, U. Turin
  • Christopher Yukins, GW Law
  • Albert Sanchez Graells, University of Bristol
  • Tunde Tatrai, Corvinus University
Panelists
  • Gian Luigi Albano, of Italy’s centralized purchasing agency (Consip), will discuss practical hurdles to exchanging contractor information between governments.
  • Lucian Cernat and Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova, economists at the European Commission, will discuss efforts by the Commission to ease exchanges of contractor information to reduce barriers to trade in procurement.
  • Mihaly (Misi) Fasekas, of the Central European University (Vienna), will discuss an innovative tool, TenderX, which assembles qualification information from multiple government sources around the world.
  • Lindle Hatton, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), will discuss coordination among U.S. states.
  • Gavin Hayman of the Open Contracting Partnership will explain how procurement data can be made open, accessible and readable for use across multiple procurement systems.
  • Maria Swaby, who lectures on debarment and contractor qualifications at GW Law School, has been invited to discuss how the U.S. government makes contractor qualification information available through the System for Award Management (sam.gov) and related online platforms.

 

Where
Virtual Event

Admission
Open to everyone.

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