Electronic Public Procurement: Process and Cybersecurity Issues

Issabayeva Symbat, Yesseniyazova Botagoz and Grega Matúš
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Issabayeva Symbat: Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan.
Yesseniyazova Botagoz: Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Public Procurement Office of the Aktobe region, Kazakhstan.
Grega Matúš: Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, 61-79

Abstract: E-public procurement has a great potential to improve public procurement processes. It helps to increase competitiveness, and the use of digital technologies also minimizes transaction costs for business, increases trust and the transparency of decisions made by public customers. The goal of this case study is to analyze the functionalities of the Kazakh e-procurement web portal EPP, to evaluate them in a national and comparative perspective and to propose recommendations with a focus on selected process issues and its cybersecurity in the condition of digital transformation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The analysis of functionalities of EPP from planning to execution of the contract allows it to propose important changes with the potential to increase competitiveness and decrease transaction costs of procurement in the country. The specific focus is on cybersecurity and proposals how to increase it.

Keywords: cybersecurity; e-public procurement; e-government; digitalization; information and communication technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/nispa-2019-0014

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