On 21 October 2009, the Walloon Region, represented by its eAdministration and Simplification Unit, the Commissariat EASI-WAL, received the Bronze Award for 'marchespublics.wallonie.be', the public procurement portal it shares with the French-speaking Community. 

The Public Tender Awards 2009 were awarded during the annual event dedicated to public procurement in Belgium, the "National Tender Day".

The purpose of this event is to draw attention to the constructive efforts made by the public authorities to optimise the integrity and effectiveness of their procurement procedures.

The National Tender Day is primarily an exchange and meeting place for experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors alike to update their knowledge and explore the new possibilities offered by the public procurement rules. The National Tender Day ends each year with the awards ceremony.

Two other Walloon projects were also nominated:

• The PURE project - a tool for the automatic generation of standard documents (specifications, screening reports, purchase orders, etc) in various stages of public procurement processes;
• A project for the optimisation and simplification of public procurement processes in close collaboration with the Walloon administration (SPW : Service Public de Wallonie).

Successful projects in the Public Tender Awards must meet the following criteria:

• Compliance: The project ensures that the service is compliant with the requirements of the law on public procurement.
• Performance: The procedures are effectively implemented to achieve the best purchases (in the interest of the administration) and the systems are put in place to promote maximum collaboration with the supplier companies.
• Risk Management: everything is in place to contain and eradicate the potentials risk to integrity characterising procurement procedures.

The National Tender Day and Public Tender Awards are organised under the initiative of a company specialised into assisting both private companies and government in procurement processes.

The Public Tender Awards competition is open to any institution, government and company subject to the Belgian regulations on public procurement.  

 

Further information: 

• Original press release - EASI-WAL (in French)
• Public Procurement Portal of the Walloon Region and the French-speaking Community (in French)
• National Tender Day