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 21regiebureau@minez.nl

Take a look at www.regiebureau.nl orsiepeilander.web-log.nl