Public procurement and transformative solutions: A migration strategy for India’s procurement in the 21st century (Report)
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Role: author with Sachin Joshi
Summary:
This report is an outcome of thought-leadership collaboration between stakeholders in India and Sweden that seeks to spur momentum to ensure innovative and global sustainable development through the mainstreaming of transformative solutions.
The collaboration is based on two national public procurement projects, one in India and one in Sweden. The objective is to explore ways that allow public procurement to deliver economic development, innovation, poverty reduction and global environmental sustainability by supporting transformative solutions.
The migration strategies include the following elements:
• Establishment of a “migration bridge”: To allow an organization in a structured way to move from current procurement to a situation where they rethink what they need. To ensure that this happens it is important to clarify responsibility within the organization, when in time as well as where in the organization it is best to move from refining current procurement to also re-thinking the way services can be provided.
• A change of reference point: To ensure that use of new transformative solutions is the reference, not current unsustainable practices.
• Cluster support: To encourage new groups of companies to deliver the solutions that are needed.
• Clear goals: To support transparency, identification of best practice as well as evaluation.
• A global perspective: To promote a perspective where transformative solutions can be used by those most in need.