Open Government Strategies that Enable a Transparent Public Procurement Process

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to interpret open government as a generator of transparency in public procurement processes from the viewpoint of experts; with the intention of supporting the above, the following specifics are proposed: Contextualize open government strategies that give viability to transparency in public administration; identify positions on public procurement from the postulates of open government.  It is given from a phenomenological paradigm approach, with a qualitative perspective and inductive method; having as strategy the documentary and bibliographic review, besides being a non-experimental research; among the instruments of data collection are direct observation and in-depth interview, having among the key informants researchers and academic experts in the topics addressed. Among the resulting findings are the importance of: Access to public information and technological innovation, the competitiveness of public management from the proposal of open government and, having a public procurement process under the symbol of a philosophy of transparency; giving this as a generator of a proposal of good praxis in which it should work from the governing bodies of open government, as it is to create an indigenous philosophy of open government to make viable the process of transparency in public procurement.