The Challenges of Compliance in Public Procurement and Contracting in the Paraguayan Government

Abstract

This article describes the importance of compliance in the public sector and specifically its incidence in an area that is very vulnerable to corruption such as public procurement within the Paraguayan State. The National Directorate of Public Procurement (DNCP) through the adoption of two key instruments such as the Integrity and Compliance Policy in the field of Public Procurement and its corresponding Action Plan to implement it represent a fundamental step in terms of transparency and control and an interesting expansion of compliance that opens from the financial sphere to one of the key sectors of development in Paraguay