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• resources – such as templates for simplified ICT contracts, standards for assuring ICT investment
plans and service delivery;
• more indicators – for assessing maturity and actions for incremental improvement on a number
of digital buying themes.

In October 2020, the Digital Buying Guide public beta was launched during the annual meeting
of the OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials, and with the support of ITU.

Between May and August 2021, UK GDS resumed the virtual meetings of the U4SSC “Procurement
Guidelines for Smart Sustainable Cities” Thematic Group to complete the development of these
Guidelines, and in preparation for the sixth Annual Meeting of the U4SSC Implementation
Programme, in December 2021.

7.2 Smart sustainable procurement - key performance indicators

The following key performance indicators (KPIs) are an initial set that have been developed through
the work of the UK GDS Global Digital Marketplace Programme team, and supported by the ITU
U4SSC and OECD Thematic Groups led by Warren Smith at UK GDS.

These KPIs are anticipated to expand with further input from the Thematic Groups, which can be
used to assess maturity and define incremental actions to take for improvement throughout the
public spending life cycle.

7.2.1 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in ICT Procurement

With thanks to UK GDS delivery partner Oxford Insights, the following GESI in ICT procurement
Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment and Learning (MEAL) indicator framework has been developed
with an associated user guide, and reproduced here.

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