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This paper examines the development of government procurement systems in Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia since the fall of the Soviet Union through the reform efforts of the 2010s. While Ukraine and Georgia have made impressive strides toward becoming models of openness, transparency, and competition for government procurement in the developing world, some challenges remain. Reform efforts are largely driven by internal desires to shed their respective histories of corruption and the vestiges of the Soviet system, though efforts to integrate into the European Union's single market have also facilitated positive development. The crowning achievements of procurement reform in post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine thus far have been their 2010 domestic Public Procurement Laws, which established advanced tendering systems and model electronic procurement platforms. However, the practical application of numerous exemptions to the tendering rules, and important gaps in the legislation, creates significant risk of abuse and corruption. Additionally, frozen regional conflicts and lingering corruption issues impede further internal development and efforts toward greater international integration, especially with respect to the European Union., TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 602 II. Background 606 A. Soviet Legacy of Neopatrimonialism 606 B. Georgia 607 1. Post-Soviet Development and Corruption 607 2. The Rose Revolution of 2003 [...]

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