SCOPE and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) jointly organised a workshop on ‘Competition Law and Public Procurement’. CCI’s chairperson, Ashok Kumar Gupta, said that PSEs are not working in isolation and therefore, they have to be aware about the environment all around. He informed that CCI will come out with a diagnostic tool kit for tender design to avoid bid rigging. The Director General of SCOPE, Dr UD Choubey said. “Procurement, value wise world over, is 15 per cent of the global GDP. India spends 30 per cent of the GDP on procurement.” He said public sector are system oriented and have introduced reforms in procurement like e-tendering, e-procurement, bill watch system, reverse auctioning and so on. Other dignitaries present during the workshop included Atanu Chakraborty, secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Ved Prakash, chairman, SCOPE and CMD, MMTC, among others.