REGIONAL MEETING ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Quito, Ecuador. July  15 to 16, 2015 . Avenida Manuel Córdova Galarza, San Antonio de Pichincha.

AGENDA

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

08:00 – 08:45 Registration

 
08:45 – 09:00 Official photo of public procurement authorities

 
09:00 – 09:45 Opening Session
Welcome and introduction to the event
Participants:
  • Santiago Vásquez, Director-General of SERCOP
  • Representative of SELA
  • Pabel Muñoz, President of REDEPLAN
  • Ricardo Patiño, Foreign Minister of Ecuador
  • Ernesto Samper, Secretary-General of UNASUR 
9:45 – 10:15 Public procurement as a tool for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. 
Participants:
  • Representative of SELA

Moderator:

  • Diego Ramos, National Secretariat for Planning and Development of Ecuador (SENPLADES)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

 
10:45 – 13:00 Panel 1 
Innovation in public procurement as an industrial policy instrument.
Participants:
  • Andrés Arauz, Coordinating Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent of Ecuador
  • Marco Dini, Economic Affairs Officer of ECLAC (to be confirmed)
  • Gabriel Bezchinsky, National University of San Martín, Argentina
  • Stephane Straub, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Moderator: 
  • Fernando Montalvo, SERCOP
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

 
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 2 
Advantages and challenges of joint negotiations and public procurement.
Participants:
  • Klenio Barbosa, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
  • Anabel Salazar, Representative of REDEPLAN
  • Mônica Sutton, Technical Advisor on Health Industrial Complex and Regulation (ISAGS-UNASUR).

 Moderator: 

  • Rommel Tejada, SERCOP
16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

 
16:30 – 18:00 Panel 3 
Presentation of experiences in joint negotiations and public procurement

 

Case of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO) 
Participant: 
  • Representative of PAHO-WHO (to be confirmed)

 

Case of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) 
Participant: 

  • Francis Burnett, Pharmaceutical Procurement Services

 


Case of Central American Integration System (SICA) 
Participant: 
  • Julio Valdés, Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America (COMISCA-SICA)

 

Case Southern African Regional Programme on Access to Medicines and Diagnostics (SARPAM) 
Participant:
  • Celestine Kumire, Director SARPAM-SADC (to be confirmed)

 

Case of cooperation between Ecuador and El Salvador
Participants:
  • Santiago Vásquez, Director-General of SERCOP
  • Representante, Ministry of Health of El Salvador

Moderator: 
  • Representative of SELA

Thursday 16 July 2015

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

 
09:00 – 11:00

Working groups
Identification of common agreements for development of regional public procurement. 


Group 1: Mechanisms for implementation of regional public procurement. 
Moderator:

  • Rommel Tejada, SERCOP

 

Group 2: Priority sectors for regional public procurement. 
Moderator: 
  • Fernando Montalvo, SERCOP

 

Group 3: Payment systems for regional public procurement 
Moderator:
  • Diego Ramos, SERCOP
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

 
11:30 – 13:00 Plenary session
Presentation of agreements of working groups 
Participants:
  • Delegate of Group 1
  • Delegate of Group 2
  • Delegate of Group 3
Moderator:
  • Representative of SELA
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

 
14:30 – 15:30 Presentation of conclusions, recommendations and commitments arising from the meeting. 
Participants:
  • Authorities in charge of public procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

 
16:00 – 17:00 Closing session
Participants:
  • Representative of SELA
  • Santiago Vásquez, Director-General of SERCOP
  • Ernesto Samper, UNASUR