Vietnam has only recently begun its official journey towards sustainable public procurement. The legal and regulatory frameworks are still being formulated. The country continues to adopt and adapt the international best practices on public procurement reform, and it is active in discerning and complying with the good practices as suggested by more experienced countries. This includes establishing the legal framework for S/GPP to introduce practices in sustainability as one of the objectives for public procurement. Various developments in legal applications are being proposed such as sub-decrees, and guidelines on the implementation processes which will enable S/GPP to reach its target of 35% of total public procurement by 2035, and 50% of total public procurement by 2050.
The objective of this review is to consider how S/GPP can support the achievement of key national development strategies, analyzing opportunities to enhance and strengthen Sustainable/Green Public Procurement (S/ GPP). This document is an Assessment of S/GPP in Vietnam, using the Sustainable Public Procurement Module of the Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) as a reference guideline. It was not aimed to carry out the full assessment as per the prescribed methodology but to capture essential elements of the methodology relevant to carry out this study.
