The World Bank is committed to the international harmonization agenda. At the request of several donors partners, the World Bank is assuming specific additional responsibilities at the global level in support of country-level implementation. While at the international level, these efforts have already resulted in several harmonized standard bidding documents, donors are also focusing on harmonization of procurement procedures and documents at the country-level which will be carried out in two stages. 

The first stage would cover harmonization among donors procedures and documents; and the second stage would concern harmonization between the government procedures and those of the donors. In agreement with the government and the donors, therefore, the World Bank has developed for their consideration the following draft harmonized documents and procedures.