Template: Checklist -                    
     Review of Compliance
     2021
                     Checklist: Quality Review of Compliance
                        INTRODUCTION 
                        The Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) includes a quality assurance
                        mechanism that can be used by the country or the institution that carries out the assessment to
                        ensure compliance with the MAPS methodology, quality and objectivity and as a result the external
                        certification of MAPS assessments.
                        The MAPS Secretariat offers upon request, advice to country teams for planning and management of
                        MAPS assessments including process and document review to ensure that the assessment has been
                        carried out in compliance with the MAPS methodology (formal   review of the assessment process
                        and assessment report). AnAssessment Technical Advisory Group (ATAG) carries out the technical
                        review of MAPS assessments. The ATAG works in close cooperation with the MAPS Secretariat. It
                        prepares comments and guidance, reviews the final report, and provides clearance of the report for
                        further action (publication, dissemination, etc.) in concurrence with the country assessed and in
                        adherence to the objectives expressed in the concept note.
                        PURPOSE 
                        This template provides a checklist for performing a formal review of the assessment process and the
                        assessment report to be submitted by country teams to the MAPS Secretariat. It can be used by the
                        country or the institution that carries out a MAPS assessment to ensure consistency with the MAPS
                        methodology. 
                                                             MAPS Assessment – General Information
                      1. Jurisdiction assessed:
                      2. Assessment start date:
                      3. Assessment lead institution:
                      Institution
                      4. Current status:
                      5. Next steps:
                      6. Languages (of assessment and
                      translations): 
                      7. Checklist completed by:
                           -    Institution:
                           -    Name:
                           -    Designation:
                           -    Date:
                     1
       2
                 A) Formal Review of the Assessment Process
                         Step             User’s Guide         Consideration           Yes           Data/Comments
                                           Reference                                 (Date) /
                                                                                       No
                 1. Planning and Preparing the Assessment
                 Concept Note           Section I,        Prepared? 
                                        Paragraph 31      Concept Note Template 
                                                          used? 
                                                          Annex 1 (Composition of 
                                                          teams) completed?
                                                          Comments requested/by 
                                                          whom?
                                                          Feedback received and 
                                                          incorporated?
                                                          Any specific issues 
                                                          identified?
                                                          Quality assurance by 
                                                          Assessment Technical 
                                                          Advisory Group (ATAG)?
                                                          Assessment Report to be 
                                                          published?
                                                          Gaps, if any:
                 MAPS Assessment        Section I,        Established?
                 Steering Committee     Paragraph 32      Chair:
                                                          - Institution
                                                          - Name
                                                          - Designation
                                                          Members: 
                                                          - Institution
                                                          - Name
                                                          - Designation
                 MAPS Assessment        Section I,        Self-/Joint/External 
                 Team                   Paragraph 33      assessment?
                                                          Lead:
                                                          - Institution
                                                          - Name
                                                          - Designation
                                                          Members:
                                                          - Institution
                                                          - Name
                                                          - Designation
                 Assessment             Section       I,  ATAG Members: 
                 Technical Advisory     Paragraph 39      - Institution
                 Group                                    - Name
                                                          - Designation
                 2. Analysis of Country Context
                 Structure and scope    Section II,       Prepared?
                                        Analysis of       Outline followed? 
                                        Country 
                                        Context
                 3. Conducting the Assessment
                 Timetable              Section I,        Established?
                 3