Overview

The Procurement Integrity program 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 program incorporates the strategies and approaches within the United States and globally to create an organizational culture committed to high ethical standards and integrity. Participants will learn best practices on ensuring organizational procurement is performed fairly, impartially, honestly, legally, and free from fraud and abuse.

Format

The seminars are currently offered both in-person and online simultaneously, at the choice of the participant. This choice must be indicated at the time of registration. A small number of courses are scheduled to be delivered exclusively in person or online, and are indicated as such in the schedule. In-Person Only seminars usually start at 9:30 am Washington D.C. time. Daily sessions usually end at 4:00 pm. Breaks (including the lunch break) are allocated as appropriate. Online Only seminars will be delivered through five (for 1-week course) or ten (for 2-weeks course) live online sessions via videoconferencing platform. Each session will last approximately 3.5 hours and will be scheduled to start within a time window of 7:00 am – 8:30 am Washington D.C. time. Hybrid In-Person/Online seminars will start at a time most convenient to both in-person and online participants, and will generally follow the In-Person seminar format. We expect the classes to be highly interactive and can include presentations, case studies and exercises.

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).