Consultancy:Profession or Business

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ConsultancyProfession or Business

• Gian E. Casartelli
• The World Bank

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ConsultancyProfession or Business

• Bank Approach
• Consultant Business Procurement issue
• a) Bank projects b) Harmonized country
  procurement system
• Professions Country Development issue
• c) Professional Economy d) Contribution to
  well-functioning socio-economic setting

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Consultant Assessment Reports
1st Generation Reforms bypassed Consultants

• 1rst Generation CPARs did not consider the
  effects of poor procurement rules on professional
  consulting services
• 2nd Generation Reforms are strongly knowledge
  based and technical, require more consulting
  services. As a consequence
• 2nd Generation CPARs include Consultant
  Assessment (CAR)

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Consultant Assessment Reports

• 2nd Generation CPARs lead to Consultant
  Assessments (CAR) with main objectives
• Assess the country consultant procurement
  performance and recommend improvements
• Assess suitability of the consultant procurement
  system for independent national consultancies

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Consultant Assessment Report

• Review and make recommendation upon
• Country policy on consultants
• Regulation on consultants
• Selection processes and practices
• Capacity building and Integrity
• Demand and Supply conditions
• Risk analysis

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Consultant Assessment Reports

• Country policy on consultants, questions
• Are professional consultants needed?
• In what fields?
• Should they be national or foreign in what
  proportion?
• Should government support consultants?

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Consultant Assessment Reports

• Regulation of professional consultants, caveats
• Beware of no regulation
• Beware of UNCITRAL model
• Beware of aggregation into the general
  procurement law
• Recommendation look at harmonized MDB

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Consultant Assessment Report

• Institutional arrangements
• Policy council and institutional links between
  those contributing to policy implementation
• Regulatory unit in procurement departments
• covering consultant issues
• Technical departments led by professionals
• Credible evaluation committee in executing
  agencies

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Consultant Assessment Report

• Selection processes and practices
• Objectives
• Improve procurement processes
• Attract interest of national independent
  professional consultants
• Targets
• Reduce process complexity
• Reduce transaction time and cost
• Increase integrity of transaction

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Consultant Assessment Report

• Capacity and integrity building
• Develop professional capacity in formulation of
  policy, regulation, selection and management
• Provide Incentives Recognition, Remuneration
• and enforcement tools to discourage corruption
• Establish official dialogue with national
  consultants associations on policy, regulation on
  procedures

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Consultant Assessment Report

• Consultant strategy re-establish trust and
  dialogue
• Short term
• White book Cost of poor quality projects
• Insist on the adoption of suitable regulation
• Medium term
• Organizing principles sound professional and
  honest practices
• Strengthen national associations
• Train young professional consultants.

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Consultant Assessment Report
FIDIC 2004

• Bank Strategy
• Institutionalize CARs
• Invest in public sector, public service, and
  procurement reform
• Promote consultant policy harmonization
• Promote dialogue between borrowers and
  professional consultants
• Develop collaboration with umbrella organizations

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Consultant Assessment Report
FIDIC 2004

• The way forward
• Recommended Action Plan for the short term
• Consultant prepare white books
• Banks prepare CARs
• Government invites to seminar/workshop
• Medium term
• Consultants Quality and integrity as organizing
  principles
• Government Simplify rules, build capacity and
  incentives
• Bank Invest in capacity building counting on
  integrity