Procurement with Integrity
People understand Procurement being the process of obtaining something from others thru selling and buying transactions. The process in itself may affect many aspects from traditional take-and-give to strict compliance of procedures and ethics. Despite compliance is a complex and uneasy to meet, ethics is a much more difficult things to measure. Ethics have a wide ranging and broad coverage. However, let us focus in Integrity as smaller aspects of ethics.
In the context of procurement, integrity means not only being honest and fair, but treating applications with confidentiality and impartiality. Acting with integrity means that principles are upheld, no matter what other people or organisations are doing. (ETHICS-IN-PROCUREMENT-PAPER.pdf)
Experience and facts show that procurement built with Integrity will essentially minimize (if not eradicate) corruption, kickbacks, conflict of interest and bid rigging. Data of KPK (the Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia show that 90 percent of corruption cases occur in the area procurement of goods and services (KPK: 90 Persen Kasus Korupsi Ada di Sektor Pengadaan Barang dan Jasa (kompas.com))
Electronic system of Procurement may reduce the above occurrence, however no matter how good a procurement system is built to prevent corruption, it will be ineffective if not equipped with integrity.
In conclusion, if all procurement built with integrity, it will create equal opportunity for all involving parties to succeed and contribute to the prosperity of the country.
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