A concept to evaluate procurement principles implementation of public construction project in Surabaya

Public construction procurement is a Government program to meet infrastructure needs. As a government program that uses the public budget as a source of funding, public procurement tends to be vulnerable to various problems and criticisms, especially related to public trust as users. Therefore, the government must prove that the implementation of procurement including the procurement of construction can be relied upon, so it must be carried out professionally and ethically. To guarantee that, construction procurement must adhere to the principles set out in the regulation. Presidential Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 16/2018 regulates Public Procurement of Goods and/or Services and establishes 7 principles of procurement implementation, including: efficient, effective, transparent, open, competitive, fair, and accountable. This paper is an initial stage of research to evaluate the implementation of the principles of construction public procurement. The purpose of this study is to identify the indicators that must be met by the government in the implementation of these principles. These principles will become the research variables, while the indicators are obtained from related literature studies. The data in this study were obtained by distributing questionnaires and interviews with several parties concerned with the public procurement in Surabaya. According to the experts' opinion, there are found that 48 indicators of the principles which could be used to evaluate the principles of the implementation of public construction project procurement in Surabaya.