Chair:
United States
Terms of Reference
(Cartagena):
- Collect, systematize and create an inventory of the
legislation, regulations, and procedures in the countries
of the Hemisphere regarding government procurement,
starting at the central government level, including,
among other, state-owned enterprises. On the basis of
that inventory, undertake a study of barries to access to
procurement by the public sector.
- Create an
inventory and analysis of regulations on government
procurement included in integration schemes and other
existing agreements to which countries in the Hemisphere
are signatories.
- Compile available data on purchases of goods and
services by central governments, including, among others,
state-owned enterprises, in the Hemisphere.
- Identify areas of commonality and divergence among
government procurement systems in countries of the
Hemisphere.
- Recommend methods to promote understanding of the
WTO Government Procurement Agreement.
- Recommend methods to promote transparency in
government procurement.
- Make specific recommendations on how to proceed in
the construction of the FTAA in this area.
Meetings:
- First Meeting, Washington, D.C., 25-26 June 1996.
- Second Meeting, Washington, D.C., 22-24 October
1996.
- Third Meeting, Washington, D.C., 4-6 February
1997.
- Fourth Meeting, Washington, D.C., 28-29 April 1997.
Publications
and Data Bases:
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