Current Activities
Currently, GPEG focuses its work on:
- Continuing to develop GPEG capacity-building projects, including
progressing SME initiatives in consultation with the SME Working Group.
- Sharing information on the Transparency Standards and encouraging member
economies to share information on their procurement frameworks, including
e-procurement initiatives.
- Information sharing on multilateral and bilateral trade arrangements
negotiated by member economies.
- Developing a framework for eProcurement Guidelines for reference of member
economies in order to assist them in developing and enhancing their own
eProcurement System.
- Conducting a stocktake of member economies' Government Procurement systems
and policies in an effort to facilitate the entry by private
businesses/enterprises into the government procurement markets of APEC
economies.
Capacity Building Projects
Korea proposed to host a capacity building workshop in 2009 which will
comprehensively chart the evolution of the government procurement systems of
member economies as well as examine the ways to assist private businesses and
enterprises to enter other members' government procurement markets. This project
is currently awaiting Budget Management Committee's approval.
The APEC
Workshop on Government Procurement in WTO and FTA was held in Beijing on
18-19 October 2007. The workshop achieved its objectives of improving APEC
members' understanding on the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and
government procurement issues in RTAs/FTAs. The workshop covered an introduction
to WTO GPA and related issues; the practice of negotiations on government
procurement chapters in RTAs/FTAs concluded or under negotiation; and adding
values to the negotiation of GPA and government procurement chapters in RTAs/FTAs.
