Nepal e-procurement / Thailand complaints / No match

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PUBLICATION: Instituting e-Government Procurement in Nepal.  The new e-Government procurement system of Nepal eases the access of national and international bidders to procurement opportunities; reduces turnaround time across the public procurement cycle and improves process efficiency overall; facilitates regulatory compliance and effective auditing; increases transparency and minimizes collusion and intimidation; helps verify and monitor bid capacity from centralized supplier/contractor/consultant profiles; and promotes monitoring, analysis, and effective decision making from aggregated procurement information.
Asian Development Bank: http://www.adb.org/publications/instituting-e-government-procurement-nepal?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
INFO: New Thai centre for foreign investors to lay graft complaints.  A new centre has been set up to hear complaints about graft from potential foreign investors, in a bid to boost investor confidence, Office of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission secretary-general Prayong Preeyajit said.
King-Oua Laohong/Bangkok Post: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1004029/new-centre-for-foreign-investors-to-lay-graft-complaints
COMMENTARY: When it comes to corruption, perception and reality do not (always) match.  “Since 1995, when it was first calculated, Transparency Internationals’ Corruption Perception Index has established itself as the go-to reference on corruption levels. Norway comes in 5th in this index. The new ranking, in which Norway comes in first, is established according to a new Index of Public Integrity calculated by the ANTICORRP project, a EU-founded research group. The index, the researchers claim, measures corruption through objective variables, instead of relying on the perception of corruption levels in a country.”
Yann Schreiber/EU Observer: https://euobserver.com/stakeholders/133732

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