ProZorro.Sale is an electronic auction system designed to sellstate property. Despite the name, it should not be confused with Prozorro – electronic procurement system. It was initiated by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Transparency International Ukraine, the Deposit Guarantee Fund, the National Bank of Ukraine and the Ukrainian electronic platforms. The goal of the system is a transparent, fast and effective sales of state and communal property, as well as fighting against corruption by the means of equal access to data, public control and the increasing number of potential buyers. This system was developed by the reputable international anti-corruption organization Transparency InternationalUkraine with a help of volunteers, NGOs, the business community and state bodies of Ukraine, the WNISEF fund, and other partners. During the pilot stage of the project, Transparency International Ukraine was administering the development of the system: ProZorro.Sale central database and some additional modules. Innovative technologies help to ensure the system’s transparency and monitoring: currently, there is an analytics module Qlik. The pilot project started on 31 October 2016. Currently, the normative and institutional base is being developed in Ukraine and it aims to provide adequate regulation of the property sales mechanism through traditional and electronic markets based on the rules similar to the EU or USA.
As by now used to sell and lease assets from the failed banks, as well as other government national and sub-national agencies and some commercial firms. Items up for auction include million-dollar credit portfolios, state-owned enterprises, mining licenses, land, woods, vehicles, billboard advertising rights, buildings, scrap, and other assets. Development and implementation of an electronic system of property sales owned by the banks going bankrupt of particular segments of the state property market and later it will be rent and small-scale privatization. Now the ProZorro.Sale system was developed, administered and controlled by Transparency International Ukraine. Later, it had to be transferred to state control.In 2018 it was finally institutionalized and a state-owned enterprise ProZorro.Sale was created.
Outcomes
A year of small-scale privatization brought the state UAH 1.48 billion. According to the rating of Ukrainian cities, the following cities are the leaders in the number of funds attracted from small-scale privatization: Lviv, Zhytomyr, Kyiv etc. Under the Law of Ukraine "On Privatization of State and Communal Property", which came into force in March 2018, small privatization would take place through ProZorro.Sales.
World recognition
ProZorro.Sale won an international award - Citi Tech for Integiry Challenge Award. Another international award ProZorro.Sale has won is Shield in the Cloud Awards 2018.
