Overview

The Procurement Integrity seminar covers the institutional, legal, and procedural issues involved in the procurement of goods and services by public entities and discusses reform programs to improve transparency, efficiency and accountability. The incorporates the strategies and approaches from both the United States and globally to create an organizational culture committed to high ethical standards and integrity. Participants will learn best practices in ensuring organizational procurement is performed fairly, impartially, honestly, legally, and free of fraud and abuse.

Certification 

Upon successful completion of the seminar, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Completion. Successful completion requires that a participant diligently attend all seminar sessions promptly and on time throughout the seminar, read all assignments, and participate in all group discussions and exercises. If a number of sessions are missed without proper reason, the ILI reserves the right to withhold certification.

Format

This seminar is currently offered in-person. Special requests to attend online must be submitted by email as early as possible. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the overall experience of each participant and the larger group. In-person seminars, even when being joined online, run from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Washington, D.C., time.

Course Outline

Public Procurement Reforms

• Reform programs and approaches to enhance transparency, efficiency, integrity and accountability

U.S. Anti-Corruption

• U.S. Anti-Corruption Agencies
• Inspector General Community
• Oversight

Risk Framework Models

• Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commissions (COSO)
• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)

Got Ethics

• Ethics & Compliance Programs
• Whistle-Blower Protections

Procurement Fraud

• Make-up and Schemes
• Vulnerabilities
• Criminal, Civil and/or Administrative

The Fraudster

• Mind-set & Motivation
• Elusiveness

Procurement Integrity Control System®

• Elements
• Criteria

Investigations

• Fraud Risk Theories
• Proactive Approaches
• Case Preparation

Case Study

• Ethical Reform Movement
• Road Blocks
• Victories and Set-Backs

Course Advisors

Allan Rotman is an experienced procurement and supply chain professional in the infrastructure, energy, water, urban and environment fields with more than 30 years of experience. He has worked at the World Bank (IBRD) (20 years) where he held various senior positions, the Africa Development Bank (2 years), Millennium Challenge Corporation (3 years), directly for government ministries in Kenya (2 years) and in the private sector (15 years) with a prominent international engineering consulting firm headquartered in Canada. Allan is now employed full-time at the USAID funded Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project as the Leadership, Governance and Procurement Advisor to assist countries with strengthening their own national systems. The GHSC-PSM assists about 30 countries globally, and is funded for $5 billion over 5 years.

Bernard Becq is an independent consultant with more than 35 years of experience. He is a senior adviser, course advisor and lecturer at the ILI. Dr. Becq was the World Bank´s Chief Procurement Officer from 2006 to 2013. Dr. Becq´s experience includes working with French development agencies, in particular, he was the Deputy Chief of the International Consulting Firm of ENPC, and Project Officer and Adviser to the President at Agence Coopération et Aménagement (ACA). Dr. Becq holds graduate degrees in Mathematics from Paris VI University and in civil engineering from ENTPE in Paris, France, and a Master degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles, USA, where he also completed post graduate work (PhD ABD).