Definition
An e-Government Procurement (e-GP) is the collaborative use of information and communications technologies by government agencies, bidding community, regulatory and oversight agencies, other supporting service providers, and civil society in conducting ethical procurement activities of the government procurement process cycle for the procurement of goods, works, and services, and management of contracts ensuring good governance and value for money in public procurement, and contributing to the socioeconomic development of country (Shakya 2015, p. 141).
Introduction
e-Procurement concept is not entirely new. In fact during the 1990s, a new trend of limited automation within the organizational processes as well as the communications with the suppliers in relation to purchase requests and supplies started using Electronic Data Interchange...
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Shakya, R.K. (2017). e-Government Procurement (e-GP). In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2785-1
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