2014-10-29
comprasgovernamenteais
Between 15 and 23 September, three representatives of the Comptroller General (CGU) participated in an international mission to learn about government procurement experiences in public and private entities in Portugal (Lisbon and Porto), Slovenia (Ljubljana) and Belgium (Brussels). The initiative had the support of the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility, which is jointly coordinated by the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (MPOG) and the European Union Delegation in Brazil (Delbra).
The participants of the mission were the director of Research and Strategic Information CGU, Gilson Liborio Mendes, the project leader for monitoring bids of the Observatory of Public Expenditure (ODP), Rodrigo Ferreira; and the substitute general-coordinator of the ODP, Sales Leonardo.
In its first stage, the initiative consisted of finding evidence of at least four successful cases of public procurement management and its monitoring, which focused on the use of information technology (IT) and data analysis to detect fraud and frailties. "The international mission was the second stage of this action and contemplated meetings with public and private entities identified as responsible for or as part of the processes identified during the first phase of the action," said Leonardo Sales.
In Lisbon, the Brazilians visited the Institute of Construction and Real Estate (INCI) and acquainted themselves with transparency tools to make the progress of procurement known, especially for large projects. In the Entity of Shared Services of Public Administration (ESPAP), they had contact with a system of shared purchases in Portugal. In the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS), they gained knowledge of how the statistical reports on Portuguese healthcare procurement are produced. In the General Inspection of Finances (IGF), they were introduced to the risk assessment model used by the Arachne Project, a system developed by the European Union for the management of EU funds. In Porto, they learned about the work of treatment and analysis of data regarding medical prescriptions and corresponding invoices to identify atypical situations made ??by the Invoice Conference Centre (CCF).
In Ljubljana, they visited the Department of Public Procurement of the Ministry of Finance and attended a presentation on the system Slovenian purchases. At the Josef Stefan Institute, they learned about works using statistics and models of data and text mining to provide better information on government transactions. In the National Review Commission for Reviewing Public Procurement Award Procedures, they accompanied the making of the centralization analysis of all appeals presented in the country’s bidding acts. In the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, they saw how the monitoring of risks and vulnerabilities of public agencies in Slovenia is done.
In Brussels, they visited the Belgian Tax Inspectorate, where investigations focused on the detection and prevention of transnational fraud in the collection of taxes in Belgium are performed. The agency uses a statistical package that applies techniques for data mining and machine learning in order to identify patterns and anomalies. The primary outcome was the mapping of eight kinds of fraud involving value-added tax (VAT).
Also in Brussels, the Brazilians met with the Directorate-General Internal Market and Services, of the European Commission, to present the main results of the meetings held in Portugal, Slovenia and Belgium.
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