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Directorate for Public Governance
Lessons learned from the implementation of the European Competency Framework for Public
Procurement Professionals
Towards an international competency framework
Promoting the professionalisation of the public procurement workforce is gaining attention
across EU Member States and OECD countries. To support professionalisation initiatives,
the European Commission designed a scalable and structured tool to assess the skills
and knowledge of public procurement professionals. This tool, known as ProcurCompEU,
provides public organisations with the means to identify missing competences or areas
where further capability-building initiatives could be implemented. To strengthen
the relevance of the tool, the OECD has been supporting public administrations from
several OECD countries in testing ProcurCompEU. This report provides insights on these
pilots and draws lessons to further increase the scalability of the tool to different
contexts and objectives.