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This page provides an overview of major qualitative assessment frameworks for public procurement systems. These frameworks offer structured approaches to evaluating regulatory environments, institutional capacity, and operational practices across jurisdictions.
| Source | Type of Review | PP Characteristics Reviewed |
|---|---|---|
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WB–OECD MAPS (example report) |
Legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks | Institutional framework and management capacity, procurement operations and market practices, accountability, integrity, and transparency mechanisms |
|
EuroPAM (scoring system) |
Legal / regulatory | Scope, thresholds, transparency, competition, evaluation, institutional setup, and complaint mechanisms |
| OECD Public Procurement Performance | Semi-quantitative reviews of regulations implementation | Transparency, publication, sanctions, audit, integrity, payments, efficiency, professionalization, digitalization, GPP, SME |
| SIGMA Public Procurement Briefs | Regulatory + institutional setup | Scope and thresholds, planning, procedures, competition and SME access, qualification and exclusion of bidders, award criteria and evaluation, life-cycle costing, modifications, framework agreements and central purchasing, e-procurement, monitoring, audit, PPPs, sustainability |
| Bosio et al. | Comparative expert analysis | Regulatory dimensions (transparency, competition, limits to exclusion, integrity of contracts) |