Open Public Procurement (LV0036)

OPENNESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN
THE FIELD
DEADLINE:
2017 2nd half - 2019 1st half
WHAT ARE THE STATE AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST ISSUES WHICH HELPS MEETING THIS
COMMITMENT?
Public procurement OECD countries on average 12% of GDP or 29% of the general government (government)
spending. 47 OECD points out: "As public procurement accounts for a significant part of the use of taxpayers'
money, the countries it is expected that they are carried out effectively in accordance with strict standards of
behavior in order to ensure a high quality of service and compliance with public interest." 48
The OECD also points out that an effective public procurement is an important step towards to meet the needs of the population,
so they are gradually becoming one of the pillars of good governance, that can allow to restore confidence in the public
administration. 49
Associations BASE study "Shadow economy Analysis of factors affecting the Latvian construction sector," stressed
the need to raise public procurement tender offer openness and transparency of the examination. 50
BASE study highlights that a significant problem that contributes to the development of the underground economy in the construction
sector, it is the lowest price criterion. The European Commission's "Report on Latvia -
2017 "recognized that the lowest price criterion is one of the disturbances in the area of public procurement, which contribute to the informal
economy, adversely affects the quality and leads to other negative consequences. 51
47 OECD. "Government at a Glance 2015". Paris: OECD Publishing, 2015th
View: http://www.oecd.org/gov/government-at-a-glance-2015-country-factsheets.htm 48 Ibid.
49 of the OECD. "Government at a Glance 2017". Paris: OECD Publishing, 2017th
View: http://www.oecd.org/gov/govataglance.htm
50 BASE. "Shadow economy Analysis of factors affecting the Latvian construction industry." 2016th
View: http://www.latvijasbuvnieki.lv/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/BASE_petijums_web.pdf 51 European Commission. "The report on
Latvia - 2017". 2017th
View: https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/2017-european-semester-country-reports_en
9th
COMMITMENT
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OECD Recommendation on public procurement 52 OECD Member States on the following requirements:
• to ensure adequate transparency of public procurement in all stages of the process (information on procurement is available
in a timely manner, it has free access to the Web site and a total investment of public funds in procurement is characterized
by transparency);
• promote public procurement process more effective, ensuring efficient investment of public funds and its
compliance with the state and society (recommended to evaluate procurement processes and institutions
to assess the risks of wastage, create client-purchasing system);
• to evaluate the effectiveness of the public procurement system - the system as a whole up to the specific procurement.
OECD recommendation encouraged to develop indicators with which to assess the effectiveness of procurement in
order to promote a more strategic approach to procurement.
The Treasury and Public Policy Center "PROVIDUS" 2017 March 17 discussion participants stressed the importance of
openness in procurement and recommended an extension of the information available on procurement. fifty three
2017 entered into force changes to the public procurement laws and regulations governing, inter alia, towards
greater openness. One of the new Public Procurement Act (entered into force on 1 March 2017) is to ensure
transparency in procurement. In addition to 2017
April 1, entered into force of public service providers Procurement Law and 2017
1 May - Public-Private Partnership Act amendments. Public Procurement Law and the Public Service Provider
Procurement Law requires not only the shopping search and procurement plan of publications, but also a gradual
transition to electronic procurement documentation publishing as well as electronic submission of tenders in one place -
the State Regional Development Agency (hereinafter - the State Regional Development Agency) Electronic
Procurement System (norm will be introduced gradually until 2019, January).
The new regulation will contribute to the gradual elimination of the orientation solely on the lowest price or cost as a criterion.
In addition to price or costs, will be able to use the quality criteria to determine the most economically advantageous tender.
Therefore, the Procurement Monitoring Bureau (hereinafter - PMB) and other relevant authorities, in cooperation with sectoral
organizations to make recommendations of evaluation criteria for various industries.
Defining new criteria may take into account, such as the Cabinet of Ministers of 20 June 2017, the provisions of No. 353
"Requirements for Green Public Procurement and the application procedure," containing advice on using environmental
criteria and the life cycle of the calculation of energy-efficient equipment.
52 OECD. "C (2015) 2 Recommendation of the Council on Public Procurement". 2015th
View: http://www.oecd.org/gov/public-procurement
53 Work material "Open Management Partnership Plan 2017-2019: wishlist Latvian challenges".
View: http://providus.lv/article_files/3299/original/OGPidejuApkopojumsFINAL.pdf?1490952718
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European Commission's "Report on Latvia - 2017" 54 It indicates that one of the problems Latvian is that the
email platform is not mandatory that both would increase transparency, as well as reduce costs.
There are already some information on procurement is publicly available in different Web site. Background on all
purchases, which are subject to legal requirements, found in the PMB's Web site, but the Latvian Open Data portal
http://www.data.gov.lv - information about the transactions that are made through the e-procurement system,
e-procurement functionality. PMB's Web site at 55 available for purchasing of publication: announcements of the
announced public procurement, as well as notices of award of the contract (ie. including. information on the winners,
the contract price offered, or intended performance of the contract involve subcontractors, small and medium
enterprises in the procurement and other information). PMB's Web site published information about the received
shopping violation appeal submissions, as well as the IUB Application Review Commission decisions, so everyone
has a chance to get information about the purchases allowed by the contracting irregularities and the results of the
examination.
VRAA Electronic Procurement System 56 It is the first e-procurement system in the Baltic States. Since the
amendments to the law in force in 2017, it is published at the national and local government procurement
plans. Electronic Procurement System is also published information about the transactions made
(customer, supplier, the transaction volume of the subject). For each procurement announced details
available in the institution or capital company's Web site (buyer profile) - procurement documentation
(regulations, technical specifications, answers to candidates and tenderers issues, including information on
the amendments to the tender documentation). The buyer profile is published in the procurement report - a
summary report on the conduct of the procurement procedure, which shall include all candidates and
tenderers names, the proposed contract price,
The requirement to publish the contract is mandatory. At the same time information on the concluded public procurement contracts
and procurement contracts are not available in one place, but the authorities and the capital company's Web site. Therefore, the
search is often difficult.
Electronic procurement system already provides for the possibility to build a repository for procurement contracts
which have been made in the system. 2018 at the beginning of this repository will be transformed into a publicly
available register of the contract (to be published only part of it, the purchaser will be marked as confidential
information-free). The initiative "Open Contracting Partnership" developed open procurement data standards 57
54 European Commission. "The report on Latvia - 2017". 2017th
View: https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/2017-european-semester-country-reports_en 55 View: http://www.iub.gov.lv 56 View:
http://www.eis.gov.lv
57 See: http: //standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en
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(Engl. - Contracting Open Data Standard), which can serve as a guide to assess the information and how it can be published in
various stages of the procurement process. In the coming years, the importance of paying attention to the efficiency of public
procurement, increasing the opportunity to examine how effectively been set in procurement. It would be useful to develop a
cross-sectoral indicators that can be used to determine the effectiveness of the specific procurement.
WHAT IS COMMITMENT?
Improve transparency and efficiency in procurement:
• introduce measures and to assess the need for further measures to improve the transparency and
public awareness of public procurement, taking into account the 2017 change in public procurement
legislation;
• promote transparency in the sub-threshold procurement, evaluating possible solutions;
• to assess the need and opportunities for national authorities concluded procurement contracts to publish in one place and
one place to publish the contract amendments. To evaluate the contract publications as its entry into the implementation of
the condition;
• VRAA promote electronic procurement system set up e-procurement and e-tendering wider use.
Provide information on the purchase of open data in the form;
• to examine the possibilities of developing national and local government procurement efficiency criteria and
methodologies, as well as risk analysis tools to be able to carry out certain procurement effectiveness,
efficiency and economic benefit evaluation. Efficiency criteria and methodology as a pilot project to test a
particular sector;
• State authorities in collaboration with industry organizations to develop and promote the recommendations of the
most economically advantageous tender evaluation criteria for various industries purchasing organization in order
to facilitate the orientation for the best price-quality ratio in public procurement, reducing the price criterion
dominant influence;
• to assess the need to develop planning documents and procurement to promote the procurement
regulatory impact assessment on the economy.
HOW TO COMMITMENT will be introduced and the solution to these problems?
The commitment will be implemented by the responsible institutions in the field of public procurement, the implementation of such
measures, which are intended to increase the transparency and public awareness of public procurement and evaluating opportunities for
increasing procurement efficiency, involving the commitment to the execution of business partners, and other industry professionals.
These measures will help to increase the transparency of public procurement and to evaluate opportunities to improve
procurement efficiency.
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HOW TO MEET COMMITMENT OGP VALUES?
OGP commitment to two values - openness and accountability. Commitment will enhance transparency as it
will be possible to visit the procurement convenient manner, thus promoting participation in public
procurement. Measures aimed at public procurement efficiency, promote the institutions responsible for their
decisions and good governance.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Linking with international instruments
Commitment to contribute to the Latvian conformity with the OECD Recommendations on public procurement requirements.
By 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers of April 3, Order No. 166 approved the project "e-procurement and e-auction platform development" 58 conceived
within the framework of such a disclosure-oriented activities:
• Automatic Electronic Procurement System for publishing opened the data available for at least the
following amounts: e-order subsystem concluded within the transaction data (publications available
today - see. https://data.gov.lv/dati/lv/dataset/eis )
procurers register, e-tendering subsystem's procurement data;
• according to the EU directive 2014/24 / EU Article 59 of the European single tender document
(hereinafter - ESPD) integration of electronic procurement system, e-tendering subsystem in order to
ensure compliance with the data exchange standard, as well as unifying the submission of tenders in all
kinds organized by the Latvian procurement;
• E-statement and ESPD mutual integration, providing automatic data entry ESPD to facilitate and
expedite the procurement of preparing a bid.
INTERMEDIATE OBJECTIVES
1. ESPD integration of electronic procurement system for e-tender subsystem
2017 2nd half - 06/30/2019.
2. Electronic Procurement System e-statement and ESPD mutual integration
2017 2nd half - 06/30/2019.
58 European Union funds 2014 2020th annual operational program "Growth and
Employment "2.2.1. the specific objective of the aid" Providing public data for re-use increases and effective public administration and private sector
interaction "2.2.1.1. measure" Centralized public administration ICT platform for the establishment of public administration process optimization and
development "project.
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3. The most economically advantageous tender evaluation criteria recommendation for preparation and publication of
the main shopping areas
2017 2nd half - 07/31/2018.
4. Electronic Procurement System for publishing open data portal
2017 2nd half - 06/30/2018.
5. Informative report on options for ensuring transparency '' subthreshold '' procurement and
electronic procurement system functionality necessary adjustments development
01.01.2018. - 01.01.2019.
RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
The Procurement Monitoring Bureau, the State Regional Development Agency
OTHER MEASURES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
INVOLVED
Ministry of Finance
MEASURE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RELEVANT PARTNERS
Society "Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association"
Association "Latvian Trade and Industry Chamber" Latvian Free Trade Union

9. Openness in Public Procurement

Language of the commitment as it appears in the action plan:

Editorial Note: The Latvian government did not submit an official English translation of its 2017−2019 to OGP. Therefore, the original Latvian version as it appears in the action plan can be viewed below. For the full text of this commitment, please see the Latvia 2017−2019 action plan here: https://www.mk.gov.lv/sites/default/files/editor/atvertas-parvaldibas-plans2017.pdf.

Uzlabot atklātumu un efektivitāti iepirkumu jomā:

• ieviest pasākumus un izvērtēt papildu pasākumu nepieciešamību, lai veicinātu atklātību un sabiedrības informētību publisko iepirkumu jomā, ņemot vērā 2017. gada izmaiņas publisko iepirkumu tiesiskajā regulējumā;
• veicināt atklātības nodrošināšanu zemsliekšņa iepirkumos, izvērtējot iespējamos risinājumus;
• izvērtēt nepieciešamību un iespējas valsts iestāžu noslēgtos iepirkumu līgumus publicēt vienuviet un vienuviet publiskot arī līguma grozījumus. Izvērtēt līguma publikācijas kā tā spēkā stāšanās nosacījuma ieviešanu;
• veicināt VRAA Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmā izveidoto e-pasūtījumu un e-konkursu plašāku izmantošanu. Nodrošināt informāciju par iepirkumiem atklāto datu veidā;
• izvērtēt iespējas izstrādāt valsts un pašvaldību institūciju iepirkumu efektivitātes kritērijus un metodiku, kā arī risku analīzes rīkus, lai varētu veikt noteiktu iepirkumu efektivitātes, lietderības un saimnieciskā izdevīguma izvērtēšanu. Efektivitātes kritērijus un metodiku kā pilotprojektu izmēģināt konkrētā nozarē;
• valsts institūcijām sadarbībā ar nozaru organizācijām izstrādāt un popularizēt ieteikumus saimnieciski visizdevīgākā piedāvājuma vērtēšanas kritērijiem dažādu nozaru iepirkumu organizēšanai, lai veicinātu orientāciju uz labāko cenas un kvalitātes attiecību publiskajos iepirkumos, mazinot cenas kritērija dominējošo ietekmi;
• izvērtēt nepieciešamību izstrādāt attīstības plānošanas dokumentu iepirkumu jomā un veicināt iepirkumu regulējuma ietekmes izvērtēšanu uz tautsaimniecību.

Milestones:

9.1. ESPD integrācija Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas e-konkursu apakšsistēmā 2017. gada 2. pusgads

9.2. Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas e-izziņu un ESPD savstarpēja integrācija 2017. gada 2. Pusgads

9.3. Saimnieciski visizdevīgākā piedāvājuma vērtēšanas kritēriju ieteikumu sagatavošana un publicēšana galvenajās iepirkumu jomās

9.4. Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas datu publicēšana Atvērto datu portālā 2017. gada 2. pusgads

9.5. Informatīvā ziņojuma par risinājumiem atklātības nodrošināšanai ‘’zemsliekšņu’’ iepirkumos un Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas funkcionalitātes nepieciešamajiem pielāgojumiem izstrāde

Start Date: 1 Jul. 2017

End Date: 30 Jul. 2019

Context and Objectives

Transparency in public procurement was addressed in Commitment 4 of the first action plan (2013–2014) ^[44] and Commitment 5 of the second plan (2015–2017). ^[45] Before new regulations were passed under the second plan, Latvia lacked an online platform to monitor procurement contracts. Procurement data, if available, was obtainable only by searching through the Procurement Monitoring Office’s website. However, names of the actual contract beneficiaries were not included in these files.¹³

The government undertook a long-term reform to introduce electronic procurement and publish government procurement data at a central depository. The reform requires government institutions to develop their own profiles on the portal, thus making all their procurement spending visible for suppliers, the media, and the general public. Ultimately, the new system of e-procurement (Commitment 5 of the 2015–2017 action plan), together with the requirements to publish planned procurements and release open datasets, have the potential to improve transparency in the long term. However, in the short term, the proportion of publicly available transactions decreased as the threshold for disclosure increased. Therefore, the IRM researcher considered the short-term impact of Commitment 5 from the 2015–2017 action plan as having reduced access of information, since less information on procurements was made available than before the development of the central depository. ^[46]

The objective of this current commitment is to enhance the public procurement system connecting databases in order to make more information available to the public, publish procurement data in open data format, and prepare policy suggestions for closer monitoring of procurements below the reporting threshold.

Milestone 9.1.2 (Milestones 1 and 2 of the action plan are combined for this report) includes two activities: integrating EU standard procedures into a subsystem of electronic procurement; and integrating e-references, thereby easing the bid submission process for bidders. Milestone 9.3 calls for stronger guidelines for procurement criteria when price is not the main criterion. Publishing data on the open data portal (9.4) is relevant to access of information and technology for transparency and accountability. Milestone 9.5 will provide policy options for regulating procurements under the reporting threshold. This could address the fact that there is currently less information available on a significant section of procurements due to the increased threshold.

As described in the action plan, the minimum information that must be published is: data on contracts concluded in electronic subsystem, a register of government institutions using the system, and data on e-procurements. Additionally, the new regulations require government institutions to publish all awarded procurement contracts, which meet the reporting threshold, to the portal by January 2019. Overall, the milestones are verifiable enough to assess their potential impact and completion.

If fully implemented, this commitment could moderately impact access to procurement contracts, once all the government institutions start using the system. It will significantly change the previous situation, where one had to search information through various files on the webpage of Procurement Monitoring Office. However, it is unlikely to solve the issue from the previous action plan regarding the lack of information on procurement contracts that are under the threshold. This was the main reason why the 2015−2017 end-of-term report found that the commitment had worsened access to information, and why this current commitment is not transformative.

Additionally, increasing transparency for procurements below the reporting threshold and expanding IT functionalities for that purpose are not described specifically enough to assess their potential impact. Even if these policies are developed and approved by the government and financed, they may not produce tangible results by the end of the implementation period.

Next steps

Although an e-procurement system now exists and provides technical solutions for transparency in public procurement, the problem the IRM researcher pointed out in previous reports–a lack of information on procurements under the threshold–remains unsolved. Compared to the previous action plan period, there is currently less information available on these under-threshold procurements. The next action plan could focus on publishing information on these under-threshold procurements.

[44] Government of Latvia: Cabinet of Ministers, Open Government Partnership Action Plan of Latvia (OGP, 2012), https://www.mk.gov.lv/sites/default/files/editor/latvijas_pirmais_nacionalais_ricibas_plans_ogp_2012.g._eng.pdf.

[45] Government of Latvia: Cabinet of Ministers, Second National Action Plan of Latvia (OGP, 23 Dec. 2014), https://www.mk.gov.lv/sites/default/files/editor/ogp_2_plans_aktualizets_05.12.2016_eng_clean.pdf.

[46] Zinta Miezaine, Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM): Latvia End-of-Term Report 2015–2017 (OGP, 2017), https://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Latvia_EOT_Report_2015-2017_EN.pdf.

9. Openness in Public Procurement

Language of the commitment as it appears in the action plan:

Editorial Note: The Latvian government did not submit an official English translation of its 2017−2019 to OGP. Therefore, the original Latvian version as it appears in the action plan can be viewed below. For the full text of this commitment, please see the Latvia 2017−2019 action plan here: https://www.mk.gov.lv/sites/default/files/editor/atvertas-parvaldibas-plans2017.pdf.

Uzlabot atklātumu un efektivitāti iepirkumu jomā:

• ieviest pasākumus un izvērtēt papildu pasākumu nepieciešamību, lai veicinātu atklātību un sabiedrības informētību publisko iepirkumu jomā, ņemot vērā gada izmaiņas publisko iepirkumu tiesiskajā regulējumā;
• veicināt atklātības nodrošināšanu zemsliekšņa iepirkumos, izvērtējot iespējamos risinājumus;
• izvērtēt nepieciešamību un iespējas valsts iestāžu noslēgtos iepirkumu līgumus publicēt vienuviet un vienuviet publiskot arī līguma grozī Izvērtēt līguma publikācijas kā tā spēkā stāšanās nosacījuma ieviešanu;
• veicināt VRAA Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmā izveidoto e-pasūtījumu un e-konkursu plašāku izmantošanu. Nodrošināt informāciju par iepirkumiem atklāto datu veidā;
• izvērtēt iespējas izstrādāt valsts un pašvaldību institūciju iepirkumu efektivitātes kritērijus un metodiku, kā arī risku analīzes rīkus, lai varētu veikt noteiktu iepirkumu efektivitātes, lietderības un saimnieciskā izdevīguma izvērtēšanu. Efektivitātes kritērijus un metodiku kā pilotprojektu izmēģināt konkrētā nozarē;
• valsts institūcijām sadarbībā ar nozaru organizācijām izstrādāt un popularizēt ieteikumus saimnieciski visizdevīgākā piedāvājuma vērtēšanas kritērijiem dažādu nozaru iepirkumu organizēšanai, lai veicinātu orientāciju uz labāko cenas un kvalitātes attiecību publiskajos iepirkumos, mazinot cenas kritērija dominējošo ietekmi;
• izvērtēt nepieciešamību izstrādāt attīstības plānošanas dokumentu iepirkumu jomā un veicināt iepirkumu regulējuma ietekmes izvērtēšanu uz tautsaimniecī

Milestones:

9.1. ESPD integrācija Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas e-konkursu apakšsistēmā 2017. gada 2. pusgads

9.2. Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas e-izziņu un ESPD savstarpēja integrācija 2017. gada 2. Pusgads

9.3. Saimnieciski visizdevīgākā piedāvājuma vērtēšanas kritēriju ieteikumu sagatavošana un publicēšana galvenajās iepirkumu jomās

9.4. Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas datu publicēšana Atvērto datu portālā 2017. gada 2. pusgads

9.5. Informatīvā ziņojuma par risinājumiem atklātības nodrošināšanai ‘’zemsliekšņu’’ iepirkumos un Elektronisko iepirkumu sistēmas funkcionalitātes nepieciešamajiem pielāgojumiem izstrāde

Start Date: 1 July 2017

End Date: 30 July 2019

This commitment aimed to improve access to public procurement data in Latvia. Specifically, it called for:

• Integrating EU procedures into the Electronic Procurement System and integrating e-references
• Providing stronger guidelines for procurement criteria when price is not the main criterion, and
• Providing policy options for regulating procurements under the reporting threshold.

This commitment was completed. The State Regional Development Agency (SRDA) had integrated EU procedures and also e-references into the Electronic Procurement System. The SRDA had also insured that the data provided by the Procurement Monitoring Bureau (PMB) is available on Latvia’s open data portal. The portal currently provides 22 datasets, including procurement from previous years and under-threshold contracts, daily renewed procurement notices (since 2013), data on service providers from low-tax or tax-free zones/countries, public services provided without procurement, and data on bidders excluded from procurement in accordance with law and other information. This data is now available for analysis. Interested citizens, journalists, and NGOs can now analyze trends in public procurement. [49] However, the PMB already provided most of this information in open data format on the PMB’s website iub.gov.lv (MS Excel) and on the PMB’s open data service open.iub.gov.lv (XML) before the implementation of the action plan. Therefore, overall, this commitment has marginally improved accessibility of information on public procurements.

The PMB worked with professional associations on guidelines for procurement in the construction sector (April 2017) [50], the recommendations of the Latvian Insurers' Association for the procurement of insurance services (June 2017) and in the information and communication technologies sector (November 2018) [51]. These documents provide for more transparent criteria and processes. The government also issued guidelines on under-threshold procurements on 7 May 2019 [52]. The amendments ask for mandatory publication on the PMB’s website in cases of below threshold procurement with allocation of the EU funding. In addition, on 13 March 2019 amendments to the Public Procurement Law entered into force. The amendments establish the obligation of contracting authority to publish all procurement contracts, framework agreement or the amendments that come into effect in the buyer's profile in the Electronic Procurement System. [53]

[49] Latvian Open Data Portal, “23 datu kopas meklējot "iepirkumi" [23 datasets found for “purchases”] (State Regional Development Agency, accessed Jun. 2020), https://data.gov.lv/dati/lv/dataset?q=iepirkumi&organization=iub.

[50] Latvijas Būvuzņēmēju Partnerība, Vadlīnijas Saimnieciski Izdevīgākā Piedāvājuma Noteikšanai Būvniecības kā arī Projektēt un Būvēt” Iepirkumos [Guidelines for Determining the Most Economically advantageous Tender in Construction and "Design and Build" Procurements] (Procurement Monitoring Bureau, 27 Apr. 2017), https://www.latvijasbuvnieki.lv/content/uploads/2017/07/20170531_vadlinijas_publicesanai_web_lapa.pdf.

[51] Latvian Information and Communication Technology Association, IKT nozares rekomendācijas saimnieciski izdevīgākā piedāvājuma vērtēšanas kritērijiem iepirkumiem IT jomā [ICT industry recommendations the most economically advantageous bid evaluation criteria for IT procurement] (Procurement Monitoring Bureau, accessed Jun. 2020), https://www.iub.gov.lv/sites/default/files/upload/IKT_rekomendacijas_SVP_vert_krit_iep_IT_20181029.pdf.

[52] Procurement Monitoring Office, Lepirkumu Vadlīnijas Sabiedrisko Pakalpojumu Sniedzējiem [Procurement guidelines for public service providers] (25 Nov. 2019), https://www.iub.gov.lv/sites/default/files/upload/SPS_Vadlinijas_20191125.pdf.

[53] Information received by the IRM from the PMB during the pre-publication review period for this report.