Counteracting Corruption In the Field of Public Procurement: E-Procurement in Ukraine

This study considers the case of the e-procurement system being deployed in Ukraine as it is the secondlargest country in Europe, and it has a tendency to guide all economies in the region by sharing its experience with the new system. The country went through remarkable trend-setting procurement systems that serve as a benchmark for most of the countries. Also, out of more than seventy member countries, it was the Ukrainian public e-procurement system ProZorro that won the first prize at the third annual Open Government Awards 2016 ceremony in Paris and the "Technology of the Future” award at C4F (Communications for the Future) Davos Awards. This research makes use of a qualitative case study which refers to the exploration of any phenomena within a particular context using multiple sources of data and find out that the e-procurement system "ProZorro" quickly proved to be effective in Ukraine