Chatham House presentation about ProZorro and public procurement reform in Ukraine. GBP170m of taxpayers funds were saved up-to-date due to pushing 100% of the country's procurement online.

1. PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
REFORM IN UKRAINE:
From #130 in Transparency International corruption
perception index
To
’May be the best e-procurement system in the world’

2. Everything started here

3. UAH 30bn (ca £1bn) –
conservative estimation of
“corruption tax”
UAH 30bn (ca £1bn) –
losses caused by limited
competition
10%
10%
At least £2bn per annum – losses from
corruption and limited competition
UAH 300bn
(£9.8bn)
10%
10%
PP was seen as synonym of corruption in Ukraine

4. Our core values
• Transparency (everyone sees everything)
• Maximum engagement of suppliers
• Competition of platforms
• Compulsory auction for price reduction
• Open-source code available for audit
• Teamwork(Agile groups)
ProZorro – state central database that enables
transactions and stores all public data +
private platforms that provide access to tenders and
service sellers/buyers

5. “Golden triangle of partnership” in the core
Commercial
platforms
Civil Society:
monitoring and
control of
procurement
Government:
“the rules”,
professionalization
and data storage
Commercial
platforms:
CAs & suppliers
acquisition and
service

6. Where do we stand now?
FROM HERE TO HERE2 years
• Paper only
• No statistical data
• Manual supervision
• No education
• No marketing
• 100% online, open-source
• All data available via API
• Compulsory anonymous
auction
• Vibrant eco-system
• 400+ trainings + online
courses (30K+ people)
270K tenders in ProZorro
14.2K CAs, 44K suppliers
£170m savings
x10 times growth YoY
Team of 100+
0 budget financing
ca £0.8m donor financing
operationally self-sufficient

7. All information available to everyone
Public BI module (bi.prozorro.org) provides all
information in a best-in-class format (Qlik software)
bi.prozorro.org

8. Professional risk-management system developed
Automatic screening of a number of factors
allows to identify corruption-prone tenders

9. New official web-portal with “Google”-like search

10. eLibrary of typical specifications

11. All legislation in one place

12. Online course started

13. First ever PP marketing campaign in Ukraine
400+ boards in 25 cities, online banners, SMM
+2 new suppliers per board, x2 times traffic,

14. • Ukraine received World
Procurement Award 2016
(public sector nomination)
• ProZorro considered by
EBRD as a recommended
model for eProcurement
reform
• National Council of Reforms
recognized PP reform as the
most successful one
• ProZorro is a showcase &
learning project of the
Open Contracting
Partnership
Prozorro – a world-renowned success story

15. A variety of Partners makes the reform possible

16. Thank you!
Web-portal
Prozorro.gov.ua
Analytics Module
Bi.prozorro.org
CA Support
Infobox.prozorro.org