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OUTREACH – GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
CCS conducted outreach on competition policy and law for
participants in the Firefly Leadership Development Programme
Over 43 participants from the Firefly Leadership Development
Programme attended CCS’s outreach session held at INSEAD on 30
August 2016. Assistant Chief Executive (Policy, Business & Economics),
Ms. Ng Ee Kia shared with the government officers the framework for
competition law and policy as well as CCS’s work. The participants
were also introduced to the new toolkit for government agencies for a
competition impact assessment. The toolkit was recently launched by
CCS to help government officers better understand the competition
impact of their initiatives.
CCS engaged government officers at SMART Regulation 101
Conducted by the Civil Service College’s (“CSC’s”) Institute of
Governance and Policy, the SMART Regulation 101 course aims to teach
policymakers how to approach regulation design and implementation.
CCS was invited to the course sessions held on 8 September 2016
and 16 January 2017, where it presented an overview of its work and
the Competition Act, the Government and Competition Toolkit, and
explained how different types of government participations in markets
(e.g. licensing, regulation, procurement) can impact competition
in market. The participants, who came from various government
agencies, also learnt about the Competition Impact Assessment
(“CIA”) Framework and applied the concepts in the CIA Checklist
as part of a hypothetical case study activity. CCS also emphasised
the importance of conducting and how to go about conducting
competition assessment of government initiatives to reduce any
adverse impact of these initiatives on market competition.
Outreach at HDB Procurement Forum on strengthening public
procurement
CCS reached out to some 350 procurement officers at the HDB
Procurement Forum on 17 November 2016 to share with them
on how to detect suspicious signs of bid-rigging, and ways to
structure tenders that will minimise the risk of bid-rigging. CCS
further expanded its outreach efforts by setting up a booth at the
Forum that distributed related information and collaterals to the
procurement officers.
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