Morocco Taps US Expertise to Boost SME Access to Public Procurement

This initiative is part of the implementation of a cooperation roadmap developed to support Morocco’s efforts to promote the efficiency, transparency and inclusiveness of the kingdom’s public procurement system.

Moreover, this new cooperation framework will allow the actors in the public procurement chain to be informed of the experiences and best practices in force in the United States and internationally in order to make public procurement a real lever for economic development, supports a joint press release from the General Treasury of the Kingdom (TGR) and the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

As for the webinar, it was led by experts from the CLDP and TGR, representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Morocco in collaboration with experts from the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

This online seminar aims to inform about the reforms undertaken in Morocco to strengthen the participation of SMEs in public procurement. It was also a matter of discussing the American model and the most successful international practices related to SME access to public procurement. These internet exchanges between the participants and the experts should make it possible to identify strategies and propose recommendations to improve SME access to public procurement.