The Digital Government Authority continuously adopts and updates regulations to keep pace with current and future requirements, and to play a key role in enhancing digital performance within government agencies, improving the quality of services provided, and enhancing the beneficiary’s experience of these services. This aligns with the ambitious vision 2030 and corresponds with the strategic directions of the Digital Government Authority, which emphasize the importance of providing an effective and flexible regulatory environment that adapts to future changes. 
 

Building on its role in achieving high efficiency in digital procurement and maximizing its benefits, the Authority has prepared the "Introductory Guide to the Digital Procurement Methodology" in collaboration with several specialized government agencies. The guide aims to strengthen the concept of the digital procurement cycle, enhance its efficiency, and regulate its procedures.
 

The guide explains the concept of the digital procurement cycle, which consists of three main phases:  the requirements definition phase, the procurement phase, and the procurement management phase.  It also outlines the key activities involved in digital procurement, enabling the implementation of various procurement operations, procedures, and activities. The guide contributes to supporting these processes to achieve the highest levels of efficiency and effectiveness by providing information and details related to digital procurement.
 

In case of any conflict between the information mentioned in this guide and the Government Tenders and Procurement Law, its Implementing Regulations, or related decisions, the provisions of the aforementioned laws, regulations, and decisions shall prevail, as they constitute the primary and fundamental reference.

The guide contributes to achieving the objectives related to digital procurement, as follows:

• Organizing the various procedures and roles within the digital procurement cycle, as well as the departments of categories, contracts, and risks.

• Enabling procurement departments to develop the methods used and the procedures followed.

• Strengthening the concept of the digital procurement cycle and adopting the main phases and activities involved in digital procurement.

• Providing government agencies with appropriate guidelines and best practices for digital procurement to leverage digital procurement enablers, such as: digital procurement classification.
   

The guide contributes to clarifying the digital procurement cycle and its included phases and activities for implementation and operation, by highlighting the following aspects:

1. The digital procurement cycle, which includes a detailed breakdown of the phases of the digital procurement cycle and the factors considered at each phase, in addition to matters related to digital procurement classification.

2. The detailed scope of the digital procurement cycle, which clarifies the approvals required to carry out the detailed activities of each phase, and the technical deliverables for each, to be produced upon completion of these activities.

3. The digital procurement methodology cycle, which contains a detailed statement of the specific activities and necessary explanations that enable the beneficiary to understand and apply them, in addition to clarifying the tools used in the detailed activities that require them.

4. Key performance indicators, enablers, and success factors, which include key performance indicators designated for each phase to be used and applied, in addition to the enablers that enhance digital procurement activities, and the success factors implemented when working with this methodology to achieve the desired outcomes.
    

This guide targets government agencies, digital transformation leaders, procurement and IT specialists, in addition to departments related to procurement procedures and associated operations.

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The following terms and expressions, wherever used in this document, shall have the meanings assigned to them, unless the context requires otherwise.