Objectives
- The objective of IFPSS is served by generating value for core public procurement national associations members and engaging with the core public procurement industry to advance ethics, new technology, market integrity, and professional standards of practice, which collectively contributes value to society.
- Core public procurement associations are those individual associations which is directly or indirectly under the directing by its sovereign regulators and primarily involved in activities related to promoting public procurement activities—generally national associations, business federation, and movement driven society specifically having the functions on public procurement.
Value
- To speak as one voice representing the international public procurement industries globally.
- To raise public awareness of their economic contributions such as statistics of monitoring the trend of public procurement.
- To provide its association members and its underlying member at each country with a proper forum to discuss issues of importance to the international public procurement community.
- To provide its members, through arbitration, with a fast and efficient means to resolve commercial disputes.
- The definition of value in word is : Innovation, Collaboration, Service, Trust, Inclusion.
Vision
- To serve all public procurement professionals seeking bidding and tendering-related education, knowledge, professional development, connection, or inspiration.
- To lead the public procurement professional’s thinking in the areas of ethics, public procurement integrity, and excellence of practice.
- To promote non-stated-owned companies, SMB, start-up and entrepreneurs on participating the public procurement industry.
Status of Progress
Since the IFPPS’s framework was outlined, it has received positive responses and inquiry of joining from more than a dozen national associations in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Europe, and South America. IFPPS will start the operation immediately right after the registration is completed. In the future, IFPPS will also invite international NGO to participate as observer. From the outbroke of Covid-19 in 2020, IFPPS founding members have carried out a few of international public procurement of health emergency supplies for supporting governments, and have been praised by the governments of Korea, PRC, Malaysia and Israeli.