Develop a procurement workforce with the capacity to continually deliver value for money efficiently and effectively.

• Ensure that procurement officials meet high professional standards for knowledge, practical implementation and integrity by providing a dedicated and regularly updated set of tools.
• Provide attractive, competitive and merit-based career options for procurement officials.
• Promote collaborative approaches with knowledge centres such as universities, think tanks or policy centres to improve skills and competences of the procurement workforce.

• Integrity
• Access
• Balance
• Efficiency
• E-procurement
• Evaluation
• Risk management
• Accountability

• Transition of public procurement from an ordering function to a more strategic function
• Complexity of public procurement rules
• The multidisciplinary nature of the public procurement profession 
• The fact that public procurement is not yet always seen a profession

• Roadmap: How to elaborate a Procurement Capacity Strategy 
• SIGMA Public Procurement Training Manual

• Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement – A practical Guide, Transparency International (2014)
• Open Government Partnership
• Open Contracting Partnership
• Open Data Charter
• Procurement iNET