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PROGRAMME DAY 1 How to Audit Public Procurement Effectively 8.30-9.00 Registration and Hand-Out of Seminar Documents 9.00-9.05 Opening Remarks from the European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law 9.05-9.30 Welcome Note from the Chair and Round of Introductions Keith Davis, Director, Cross-Government Work Department, National Audit Office, United Kingdom 9.30-10.00 Auditor´s Approach to Public Procurement • Enforcing public procurement law • Procedural rules safeguarding effective and sound procedures • The role of effective remedies Magnus Johansson, Senior Advisor, Department for Enforcement of Public Procurement Laws, Swedish Competition Authority 10.00-10.15 Discussion Round 10.15-10.45 Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity 10.45-11.30 Checklist to Discover Unfair Competition • Exclusions of economic operators convicted of crimes or grave professional misconduct • Twelve ways to detect bid-rigging cartels • Frequent issues: Case studies from the Swedish Competition Authority Magnus Johansson, Senior Advisor, Department for Enforcement of Public Procurement Laws, Swedish Competition Authority 11.30.11.45 Discussion Round 11.45-12.30 An Overview of the Range of Methods Employed by the NAO in Its Work on Public Procurement This presentation includes a cross-government perspective, but also pulls in findings from department-specific work such as that in health, transport and defence. • Savings validation – Reviewing savings methodologies • Review of specific major procurements – Forensic examination of processes • Procurement controls Keith Davis, Director, Cross-Government Work Department, National Audit Office, United Kingdom 12.30-12.45 Discussion Round 4 With Practical Cases DIMITRIOS IOANNIDIS Audit Coordinator, Audit Coordinator, Performance Audit Department, Swedish National Audit Office Since 2006, Dimitrios Ioannidis is Audit Coordinator at the Swedish National Audit Office. He has audited procurement processes linked to the sale of state owned companies as well as the purchase of IT and telecom services in the government sector. In 2005, he was Secretary in a Government of Committee, dealing with the review of the Swedish National Premium Pension system. In this position, he has also worked with procurement. Between 2001 and 2006, he was Economist at the Financial Stability Department of the Central Bank of Sweden, and participated in the procurement of a new system for the settlement of large payments. Between 1990 and 2001, he was researcher and lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research focused on the importance of buyer/seller relationship for industrial and corporate development. The views expressed in his presentation are solely those of the speaker himself and do not represent the official position of the Swedish National Audit Office. MAGNUS JOHANSSON Senior Advisor, Public Procurement Department, Swedish Competition Authority Magnus Johansson is Senior Advisor at the Swedish Competition Authority. In this position, he advises the Swedish government in public procurement related projects and prepares expert opinions in legal matters when requested from Swedish courts. Before this position, he was Case Officer at the Swedish Competition Authority. In this role he got to know a more practical view upon the field of public procurement: a the Swedish Competition Authority has the possibility of processing a public procurement fine against contracting authorities with a particular focus on illegal direct award of contracts. Prior to this, he was Case Officer at the Administrative Court of Stockholm, where he has been working with procedural law and the material law of public procurement, and at the Swedish Unemployment Insurance Board (IAF).
12.45-14.00 Lunch Break and Networking Opportunity 14.00-14.45 Audits of Public Procurement of IT/Telecom Services and Investment Banking – Methodological Reflections • A grounded approach • Identifying the audit norm • Applying the norm • Confident analysis Dimitrios Ioannidis, Audit Coordinator, Swedish National Audit Office, Sweden The views expressed in his presentation are solely those of the speaker himself and do not represent the official position of the Swedish National Audit Office. 14.45-15.00 Discussion Round 15.00-15.45 Accepting or Challenging Industry Standards? The Role of the Auditor in Guiding Governments with Complex Services and Products • Who is the ultimate beneficiary of procurement – The supplier or the client? • Dangerous misunderstandings • The case of investment banking services in the sale of state owned companies • The case of IT and telecom services in the government sector • The case of critical financial infrastructure operated by government • Lessons learnt from public procurement Dimitrios Ioannidis, Audit Coordinator, Swedish National Audit Office, Sweden The views expressed in his presentation are solely those of the speaker himself and do not represent the official position of the Swedish National Audit Office. 15.45-16.00 Discussion Round 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity With Practical Cases KEITH DAVIS Director, Cross-Government Work Department, National Audit Office, United Kingdom Keith Davis is the Director of the National Audit Office’s Cross- Government Work Department. His role includes leading work on procurement, workforce, property and public sector transformation. He has overseen Cross-Government value for money reviews on collaborative procurement, contract management and the Government Procurement Card. He has also directed value for money reviews on specific categories including professional services and postal services. He leads the NAO’s relationship with the Cabinet Office and the Efficiency and Reform Group. Previously he managed value for money reviews of the BBC and was Head of the Press Office at the NAO. He is a qualified accountant (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy). Case Study 16.30-17.30 Auditing Compliance with Procurement Process on the Example of the Government Procurement Card (GPC) • The concept of risk in the procurement process • Reviewing the existing control system to ensure value for money in the procurement process • Experiences from the Government Procurement Card (GPC) • Example of the Government Procurement Card (GPC) Audit by the NAO - Background: GPC to pay for goods and services, typically used a way to use low-value, high-volume transactions - Misuse of the GPC - Review of the controls in place to ensure value for money in the use of cards - Recommendations - Implementations Keith Davis, Director, Cross-Government Work Department, National Audit Office, United Kingdom 17.30-17.45 Discussion Round 17.45 End of Day One 5
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