Activities

"V Goverment Procurement Conference of the Americas", September 2-4, 2009, Mexico City.
[Agenda][List of Participants]

"I Seminar-workshop on Sutainable Public Procurementin Central-America", October 29-30, 2008, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica.
[Agenda] [List of Participants]

"III Coordination Meeting with Central American Government Procurement Authorities", Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, October, 28, 2008.
[Agenda] [List of Participants] [Priorities for Technical Cooperation in Central-america].

“Workshop on Modernization of Government Procurement in the Caribbean”, Runaway Bay, Jamaica (2008), with the participation of 17 high ranking government procurement authorities from 13 CARICOM countries and two Latin-American countries. Representatives from the IDB, IDB-MIF, CARICOM and the OAS were also present.
[Agenda] [List of Participants] [Press Release]

“IV Annual Government Procurement Conference of the Americas", city of Panama, Panama, (2008), with the participation of 35 representatives from 21 countries from the Americas as well as IDB, IDB-MIF, CARICOM, ICA-IDRC and OAS representatives.
[Agenda] [List of Participants]

“II International Seminar on Government Procurement and Meeting of the Inter-American Network on Government Procurement”, Asuncion, Paraguay (2007), with the participation of 15 high ranking government procurement authorities from 10 American countries as well as more than 300 Paraguayan professionals from the public, private and academic sectors, as well as IDB, CARICOM, IDA-IDRC and OAS representatives.
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

“III Annual Government Procurement Conference of the Americas”, Lima (2006), with the participation of high standing government procurement authorities from 18 countries as well as more than 2000 professionals from the Peruvian public, private and academic sectors.
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

“II Annual Government Procurement Conference of the Americas”, Atlanta (2005), with the participation of 50 high ranking government procurement authorities from 20 American countries as well as more than 500 professionals from the United States public, private and academic sectors as well as CARICOM, Andean Community and OAS representatives.
[Agenda] [List of Participants] [Press Release]

"Government Procurement Links with Financial Systems Workshop”, Asuncion, Paraguay (2006), 14 countries represented by 23 High Ranking government procurement authorities.
[Agenda. English Version ] [List of Participants]

“I International Seminar on Government Procurement”, Asuncion, Paraguay, (2006), almost 300 participants on behalf of the Paraguayan public and private sectors.
[Agenda. English Version]

“Strategies for E-Government Procurement Development Workshop”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2006), 12 participating countries represented by 15 high ranking government procurement authorities.
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

“Government Procurement Professional Development and Training Workshop", Quito, Ecuador (2006), six countries represented by 11 high ranking Government Procurement Authorities participated.
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

“Conference on Better Experiences in E-Government Procurement in the Americas”, Quito, Ecuador (2006), almost 500 representatives from the Ecuadorian private and governmental sectors participated.
[Agenda. English Version]

“Inter-American Workshop on Government Procurement Practices Harmonization: Cataloging, Registration, and Certification”, San Jose, Costa Rica (2006), with the participation of 15 Government Procurement Authorities from 11 countries .
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

“Conference on Better Experiences in E-Government Procurement in the Americas”, San Jose, Costa Rica (2006), with the participation of around 400 Costa Rican public and private sector representatives.
[Agenda. English Version]

“Inter-American Workshop on SME Competitive Participation in Government Procurement”, Mexico City (2006), with the participation of 39 high standing Government Procurement authorities and SME Support Agencies from 14 American countries.
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

"III Inter-American Seminar on E-Government Procurement",  Santiago de Chile (2005), with the participation of high ranking executives related government Procurement in the Americas, as well as international experts on the topic.
[Agenda. English Version] [List of Participants]

II “The II International Seminar on Strategies and Cooperation in E-Government Procurement: Institutional Organization, SMEs, Commerce and Development”, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2004). Co organized between the OEA and the Brazilian Government. With the participation of 32 High Standing Government Procurement Authorities which represent 15 countries.
[Agenda and Final Report] [List of Participants] [Final Report]

"I Inter-American Seminar on E-Government Procurement" held in Lima, Perú (2003)  with the participation of high ranking executives related government Procurement in the Americas, as well as international experts on the topic.

“Seminar on Challenges and Opportunities in the implementation of Government Procurement in the Free Trade Agreements of Central-America ”; San Salvador, El Salvador (2005), with the participation of representatives of government procurement, as well as the trade negotiators of government procurement in the Central American countries and Panama.

4 "Electronic forums on E-Government Procurement" (2004-2005), with the presentations of the experiences of Compranet (Mexico), Contratanet (Costa Rica and ChileCompra (Chile); with the participation of 190 American government procurement specialists and executives.
[Publication] [List of Participants]

Preparation of "National E-Government Procurement Profiles"  for 13 countries of the Hemisphere (2004-2005).
[Profiles]

Two "Coordination Meetings with Central American Government Procurement Authorities"; San Jose, Costa Rica (2004) and San Salvador (2005).
[Agenda - Coordination Meeting] [List of Participants - II Coordination Meeting] [Recommendations and Conclusions - II Meeting] [Priorities of Work - II Meeting]

Two Coordination Meetings with Government Procurement Authorities of the Andean Community Countries, Lima (2004 and 2005).
[Agenda - II Coordination Meeting] [List of Participants - II Coordination Meeting]

Report concerning the Comparative Analysis of the E-Government Procurement Strategies of the Andean Community countries (2005).
[Download Report]

Report concerning the Modernization of Public Procurement and Acquisition Practices as an instrument for Commerce and Development. Realities and Challenges of the Latin American Public Procurement Systems (2005).
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