Issues in PurchasingDutch Central Government
Siep EilanderChief Procurement Officer
June 22nd 2007
Regiebureau Inkoop Rijksoverheid
• Office of the CPO (Chief procurement officer)
• We direct and organize purchasing, we don’t purchase ourselves
• Scope: anything invoiced; central government
Situation
• Central government: 13 departments and agencies of different sizes
• Every department has its own purchasing organization
• Proximately €15 billion annual spend• Constitution states: minister is
responsible for his or her spending
Challenge
• Management information not available at “corporate” level
• Limited incentives for cooperation• Good news: willingness and positive
experience growing
Goal
• Organise governmental purchasing better and more efficiently,
• Better use of possibilities for sustainable procurement, stimulating innovation, and equal chances for smaller enterprises
Plan
Improve infrastructure of procurement by
• Categorymanagement• Informationmanagement • E-procurement• (HRM)• (Legal issues, bureaucracy)
Contact
Office of the CPORegiebureau Inkoop RijksoverheidPostbus 201012500 EC Den Haag070-349 06 [email protected]
Take a look at www.regiebureau.nl orsiepeilander.web-log.nl
