The Procurement G6 is an informal group of six national central purchasing bodies. It is also known as the Multilateral Meeting on
Government Procurement
Government procurement or public procurement is the procurement of goods, services and works on behalf of a public authority, such as a government agency. Amounting to 12 percent of global GDP in 2018, government procurement accounts for a subst ...
(MMGP).
Members
Members of the Procurement G6 are:
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Public Services and Procurement Canada
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC; french: Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada)''Public Services and Procurement Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Public Works ...
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ChileCompra
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Consip
Consip S.p.A. is a joint-stock company, set up in 1997, held by the Italian Ministry of economy and finance (MEF), which is the sole shareholder. The company operates in keeping with the MEF’s strategic goals, working exclusively to serve the ...
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Public Procurement Service
The Public Procurement Service (, PPS) is a governmental organization in South Korea and is run under the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It is tasked with the purchasing, supply and management of materials required for major building works in th ...
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Crown Commercial Service
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office (United Kingdom), Cabinet Office of the UK Government. The CCS is responsible for managing the government procurement, procurement of common goods a ...
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General Services Administration
The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. gover ...
Scope
Each country shares experiences about:
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e–procurement systems
* challenges, opportunities and actions for
small and medium enterprises (SME)
* their qualification systems for enterprises
* instruments and indicators for the performance measuring of the Central Purchasing Bodies and their impact on the economic system, on the public sector and on the enterprises
* actions to minimize the corruption risk
* the
green procurement
Sustainable procurement is a process whereby organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a life-cycle basis while addressing equity principles for sustainable development, there ...
scenarios
Past meetings of the Procurement G6 have included:
* June 15–16, 2009 —
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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* June 10–12, 2010 – Rome,
* September 24–26, 2013 —
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...
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* May 24–25, 2016 – Rome,
* October 10–11, 2018 —
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
See also
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Agreement on Government Procurement
The Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral agreement under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which regulates the procurement of goods and services by the public authorities of the parties to the agreement, ba ...
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Auction
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition ex ...
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E–procurement
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Expediting
Expediting is a concept in purchasing and project management for securing the quality and timely delivery of goods and components.
The procurement department or an external expeditor controls the progress of manufacturing at the supplier concerni ...
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Global sourcing Global sourcing is the practice of sourcing from the global market for goods and services across geopolitical boundaries. Global sourcing often aims to exploit global efficiencies in the delivery of a product or service. These efficiencies include ...
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Group purchasing organization
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members.
Many GPO ...
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Purchasing
Purchasing is the process a business or organization uses to acquire goods or services to accomplish its goals. Although there are several organizations that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly betwee ...
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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing is the process of developing channels of supply at the lowest total cost, not just the lowest purchase price. It expands upon traditional organisational purchasing activities to embrace all activities within the procurement cycle, ...
Notes and references
External links
Consip
CC – Direcciòn ChileCompra
GSA – General Services Administration
PPS – Public Procurement Service
PWGSC – Public Works and Government Services Canada{{Flag, CAN
Systems engineering
Public eProcurement