Chris Smith
Electronic Government Procurement (E-gp) Consultant - Palau @Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Electronic Government Procurement (E-gp) Consultant - Palau @Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ABOUT CHRIS SMITH
Chris is an international procurement specialist and an e-GP consultant with 45 years of practical experience implementing donor-funded projects in Africa, Asia, the Caucuses and the Middle East. Over the last 16 years, he has focused on supporting the adoption of e-GP by providing e-GP training and business requirements analysis for the design and procurement of e-GP systems. He is an empanelled e-GP consultant with Asian Development Bank, for whom he has recently undertaken two e-GP assignments, including one in Indonesia. He is currently helping ADB with a research assignment to survey the status of e-GP implementation in ADB member countries. Chris is a passionate advocate for adopting a data-driven Open Contracting approach to public procurement and the use of the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) in e-GP. He co-authored the Open Contracting Partnership guide to defining an OCDS specification when procuring a new e-GP system and has advised the UK and Welsh Governments on the data dimension of their procurement reforms.
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