 In an effort to foster a greater understanding and utility of the Caribbean Public Procurement Notice Board, CPBNB and the National Advertising Portal, NAP, a three-day capacity-building workshop was conducted with senior procurement officers in the public service. Director of the Caricum Single Market, Titus Preville, said that the Notice Board and Advertising Portal form part of the electronic tools that have been provided as part of the Public Procurement Regime pursuant to Article 239 of the revised Treaty of Chagrammas. While the protocol on Public Procurement was approved by the Conference of Heads of Government in February 2019, to date, only six member states, Antigone Barberas, Belize, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname, have signed a protocol under declaration of intent to provisionally apply the protocol. St. Lucia, he said, has not yet signed the protocol. However, St. Lucia and Belize are the only two member states that have approved the rules and procedures for administering the protocol on Public Procurement. A total of 1.5 million euro was spent on developing these procurement instruments for the Caribbean community. Since the Public Procurement Notice Board was commissioned in September of 2019, only Barberas and Belize have made use of the CPPNB and the National Advertising Portals that come with them. The Caricum Secretariat and by extension the community continues to pay annually US $80,000 through a service level agreement to the developer, European Dynamics, for a warranty to service and maintain the system, which is only being used by two member states. Privileged added that there appears to be a lack of internal coordination in member states, which continues to stifle progress on critical matters, which effectively deny the people of the Caribbean the benefits intended from the Caribbean's single market and economy. Notwithstanding the presence of the CPPNB and National Advertising Portals, some member states in their wisdom have invested significant resources in new public procurement systems while not making use of the existing system. Permanent Secretary in the Department of Finance Francis Fontenelle said this 3-day capacity-building opportunity will afford procurement entities an appreciation of the objectives of regionally integrated procurement, the benefits to be derived, and the manner in which those benefits can be achieved. Training in the use of the notice body is expected to result in the following, equipping our procurement entities and suppliers with the means to access the wider regional market, allowing our procurement entities valuable insights into how member states are performing the procedures, gaining access to a wider pool of suppliers available to meet our procurement requirements, giving our local suppliers access to a wider regional market, and importantly to introduce a higher standard of transparency in public procurement. He noted that the level of transparency is premised on fairness and openness in the procurement process. The workshop was facilitated by senior technical officers Philip McLauren and Derek Brown from the CSME office in Barbados. It is hoped that through these capacity-building sessions, there will be greater participation by member countries to utilize the Caribbean Public Procurement Notice Board and National Advertising Portals for the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting.