Prozorro

During the pilot stage of the project, Transparency International Ukraine was administering the development of the system: the Prozorro central database and several additional modules.

Innovative technologies help to ensure the system’s transparency and monitoring: currently, there are the analytics modules Qlik, public (bi.prozorro.org) and professional (bipro.prozorro.org).

In December 2015 all ownership and relevant intellectual property rights for Prozorro system have been transferred to the state enterprise designated by Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

[1] Ukraine, similarly to other developing countries, suffers from ineffectiveness and corruption in the public services sphere.

After its independence, Ukraine suffered an economic slow down which, partnered with excessive crime and corruption, caused further dissatisfaction among its citizens.

The win of Viktor Yanukovych, however, was followed by a public outcry and the launch of a peaceful protest known as the Orange Revolution which challenged the results.

[5] During the 2013 EuroMaidan revolution activists organized by Olexandr Starodubtsev called for more transparency within the government and its surrounding platforms.

During the Revolution of Dignity, a team of volunteers sets a goal to reform public procurement and make it transparent.

As a result, an informal group of activists led by Oleksandr Starodubtsev started developing scenarios for a quick reform of the procurement system in order to implement one of them.

[6] To intensify the reform at the state level, in May 2014, the Minister of Economy of that time Pavlo Sheremeta initiated a working group on public procurement reform at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (now the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine), which included some of the activists.

This approach formed the basis of the pilot, and its core principles were enshrined in the Memorandum, signed on September 9, 2014, in the Ukrinform news agency.

And with the adoption of the law "On Public Procurement" in December 2015, the Prozorro system was transferred to the balance of the state enterprise "Foreign Trade Publishing".

Beginning with Phase 1 (April 1, 2016), electronic public procurement became mandatory for central executive bodies and those offices carrying out monopolist activities for “below-threshold” contracts.

Active: In the process of disconnection (did not provide a certificate of a comprehensive information security system): Dozorro is Prozorro's end-to-end online platform which allows any participant of the public procurement process - citizens, businesses, public buyers, controlling and prosecution bodies - to monitor particular tender, analyze procurement records, report wrongdoings and appeal the illegal practices.