Final meeting of the Innovation Laboratory in Public Procurement

On March  21 and 22  (Wednesday and Thursday) we held the final and closing meeting of the Laboratory for Innovation in Public Procurement working group at Medialab-Prado in Madrid  . After five months of multidisciplinary and open collaboration between  public sector professionals ,  contracting experts ,  representatives of the academy ,  social groups  and  citizens in their own  capacity to define a more transparent model of public contracting, we want to close this activity with a  double day with experts National and international in contracting transparency and in monitoring risks and corruption in public contracting.

It is a completely open activity and it is not mandatory to register, but if you do, you will help us to have an estimate of attendees and the necessary catering .

March 21 Program - International experiences

• 16: 30h / 16.45h  Welcome and presentation of the objectives of the day.

• 4.45pm / 5.15pm  Anastasiya Mazurok , monitoring and evaluation expert at  Transparency International - Ukraine . It will explain how civil society, public authorities and the private sector collaborated in Ukraine to launch  Prozorro , a platform for open data and transparency of public contracts, and what difficulties they encountered.

• 5.15pm / 5.35pm  Mara Mendes , from the  Open Knowledge Foundation - Germany , will explain  Digiwhist , a European project that investigates corruption risks in public contracts in 35 European jurisdictions.

• 5.35pm / 6pm  Daniel Tanis , from the University of Cambridge and member of the Digiwhist consortium  , will tell us his vision of what corruption risks in public procurement are like and how they should be.

• 6:00 p.m. / 6:20 p.m.  Alejandro Ferrando Gamir , advisor to the Government of the United Kingdom and an expert researcher in  risk analysis in public procurement , will delve into what specific risks occurred in prominent cases of corruption in Spain, and how they should be monitored.

• 18.20h / 18.40h  Break

• 6.40pm / 7pm  Matthias Huter , transparency and anti-corruption consultant, was project manager at Transparency International - Georgia. He will tell us about the progress in transparency of public contracts in Georgia and the control tools that have emerged from civil society, such as  TenderMonitor .

• 7pm / 7.20pm  Sándor Léderer , director of  K-Monitor . He will explain the state of transparency of Hungarian public contracts and the control of red flags of corruption through the RedFlags.eu project  .

• 7.20pm / 8.30pm  Colloquium with all the speakers and questions from the public.

• 7.20pm / 8.30pm Discussion forum on health contracting with Irene Caselli, Mariangela Matturi, Marta Orosz and Hristio Boytchev, journalists specializing in public health contracting.

Program March 22 - National experiences

• 10.30am / 10.45am  Welcome and presentation of the objectives of the day.

• 10.45am / 12.15pm  Panel on transparency of public procurement in Spain .

  • Anna Ciutat i Coronado  (Deputy Director General of Monitoring and Evaluation in the General Directorate of Public Procurement of the Generalitat de Catalunya).
  • Miryam Iranzo  (Head of the Madrid City Council Recruitment Service).
  • Ana Isabel Beltrán Gómez  (Head of the Transparency Service in the General Directorate of Citizen Participation, Transparency, Coordination and Volunteering of the Government of Aragon).

• 12.15pm / 12.45pm  - Break

• 12:45 PM / 2:30 PM  -  Panel on prevention, surveillance and punishment of corruption in public procurement .

  • Carlos Balmisa  (Director of the Internal Control Department of the National Markets and Competition Commission).
  • Alejandro Ferrando Gamir  (advisor to the Government of the United Kingdom and expert researcher in risk analysis in public procurement).
  • Alfonso Puncel  (undersecretary of the Ministry of Transparency of the Generalitat Valenciana).