Armenia signs FreeBalance implementation deal, finance minister says
The contract marks the start of work on Armenia’s government financial management information system, rather than its launch as an operational service.
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The contract marks the start of work on Armenia’s government financial management information system, rather than its launch as an operational service.
Armenia has signed a contract with Canadian company FreeBalance marking the start of implementation of its Government Financial Management Information System (GFMIS), Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan said on Facebook, according to Civic.am, a news site close to the governing Civil Contract party.
The Finance Ministry dates the project’s preparatory work to 2020. It says the system aims to improve public financial management efficiency and reporting by digitizing and streamlining core work processes.
In 2021, the ministry and the competitively selected Harmony Foundation, a consulting organization, inventoried and studied processes for six planned parts of the system: budgeting, treasury, public sector accounting, public procurement, public debt and internal audit. These were areas of earlier project planning, not functions confirmed in the contract announcement.
The ministry says that review informed a revised system design covering work processes, connections between the system’s parts and data exchange. It then drafted requirements for acquiring implementation software. In June 2023, it began studying potential bidders’ capabilities and interest and contacting local and foreign technology companies about the planned tender.
Hovhannisyan called the signing a historic day for the ministry and an important intermediate result of the work undertaken. His announcement places the project at the start of contracted implementation; he did not give a contract value, delivery timetable or operational-launch date.
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