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An e-Government Procurement is the collaborative use of information and communications technologies by government agencies, bidding community, regulatory, oversight agencies, other supporting service providers, and civil society in conducting ethical procurement activities of the government procurement process cycle for the procurement of goods, works and service, and management of contracts ensuring good governance and value-for-money in public procurement, and contributing to the socioeconomic development of country. Presently, most of the governments around the world are implementing e-government procurement (e-GP) systems as a tool for public procurement reform for better governance in the public procurement sector. The research indicated that an e-GP system can be fully leveraged for enhancing good governance if, among other things, a comprehensive e-GP system implementation framework is followed with adequate planning, phasing of implementation is based on the procurement cycle basis rather than an incremental functional basis, and the e-GP system addresses all the key aspects of good governance rather than focusing only on 1 or 2 aspects in isolation.

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Dr. Rajesh Kumar Shakya is an expert advising for e-Procurement, public procurement, e-Governance and Green Procurement strategies, design and implementations. He has advised more than 30 countries from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central Asia, Asia, and Europe under the projects of the World Bank, USAID, ADB, IADB and other agencies.

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