A government programme seeks consultants to shape sustainable procurement policy and evaluate systems, signalling a push to align spending with climate goals.
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A prior information notice for the Economic Governance Service Delivery Program invites consultants to demonstrate experience in developing sustainable public procurement policies and evaluating public procurement systems. Issued by the Strategic Unit of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in October 2025, it signals a drive to link day-to-day spending with environmental and governance outcomes while sharpening the performance of the state’s purchasing machinery.
The notice is concise: it seeks consultancy credentials in two areas — sustainable public procurement policy and procurement system evaluation. Together, these touch both the “what” and the “how” of public purchasing. Policy work sets the rules and incentives that shape markets; system evaluation tests how those rules operate in practice and where performance can improve.
Sustainable public procurement typically brings environmental and social considerations into buying decisions. Evaluating a procurement system, in turn, looks at how processes, oversight and data support value for money and integrity. While fuller terms are not yet public, the combination points to a programme that wants to connect climate-aligned purchasing with stronger delivery across the procurement cycle.
The brief arrives amid a broader wave of reforms that blend sustainability, transparency and digital service design.
In June 2023, the Ministry of Economy and Finance - GEPRES in Mozambique sought an e‑GP regulation consultant to draft rules for electronic public procurement. The scope was notable: it explicitly referenced sustainable public procurement, the Open Contracting Data Standard, data privacy, beneficial ownership, interoperability with core government systems and financial services, and anti-corruption safeguards — alongside standard documents tailored for a digital environment.
In January 2025, Togo’s Ministry of Civil Service Reform, Labour and Social Dialogue opened a study on re-engineering e‑procurement processes to simplify and digitalise public purchasing operations. That work sits squarely in the same space as a procurement system evaluation: understanding current workflows and redesigning them for speed, compliance and usability.
Governments are also restructuring front-end service delivery. In September 2024, Mozambique’s National e‑Government Institute sought help to develop a Public Service Catalogue and integrate it into the Citizen’s Portal. In November 2024, a Côte d’Ivoire programme commissioned a review of digital public services to map, analyse and recommend improvements. And in June 2024, Senegal’s Ministry of Communication, Telecommunication and Digital advanced the consolidation of the Senegal Services platform, with an emphasis on fixing anomalies, interoperability and a unified user experience.
These moves underline the direction of travel: procurement reform is no longer isolated. It is tied to open data, digital identity, payment rails and service design. Sustainability features as a requirement within that architecture rather than an afterthought.
The current notice asks for experience in sustainable procurement policy and system evaluation. Comparable assignments point to a practical skill mix likely to be decisive:
Consultants with a track record of working across policy, systems and change management will be well placed. The ability to translate sustainability goals into procurement documents and workflows, and to evidence improvements through data, is becoming standard.
Procurement reform increasingly sits within a broader accountability agenda. In October 2024, Benin’s Agency for the Development of Technical Education sought an individual consultant to design and implement a computerised complaint management platform. Grievance systems like this support redress, reveal bottlenecks and, over time, improve contract and service outcomes.
Feedback also features at the local level. In March 2024, Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development moved to engage a civil society organisation for a beneficiary satisfaction survey of completed sub‑projects under a grants system. Such exercises close the loop between spending and experience on the ground.
Data systems are expanding in parallel. In November 2025, Benin’s National Employment Agency sought a firm to set up a labour market information system. And in May 2023, the Sèmè City Development Agency commissioned an entrepreneurship support labelling framework. Together with the digital service reforms in Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal, these efforts show how procurement sits within a wider system of standards, information and citizen-facing services.
That wider system matters for sustainability. It defines how climate-aligned requirements are published, searched and enforced; how suppliers demonstrate compliance; and how outcomes are tracked. It also shapes market access for smaller firms, which is often part of the social side of sustainable procurement.
The current notice is light on detail beyond the call for experience, but the direction is clear: a focus on sustainability in procurement policy, and on the capability of the procurement system to deliver that policy in practice.
Outlook: Watch for how the assignment frames sustainability within the procurement rulebook, and how the system evaluation tackles process, data and transparency. The interplay with digital procurement and open data — prominent in recent assignments in Mozambique and Togo — will be an important signal of ambition. The links to complaint handling and citizen feedback, visible in Benin and Sierra Leone, will also indicate how far the reforms aim to translate better rules into better services.
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