Business House: A Ground-Breaking Model of Public-Private Partnership

As part of a four-stage planned reform, the Georgian Government announced the New Business House Project, introducing a groundbreaking model of public-private partnership.

Business House will be a space where individuals and private entities will have a chance to receive all services, previously spread throughout various ministries and state organizations, in one place and on one electronic platform. These services will include management of state property and privatization, issuance of natural resource licenses and state programs aimed at fostering the agriculture sector, services provided by the Entrepreneurship Development Agency within the frames of program ‘Produce in Georgia,’ as well as services provided by the Partnership Fund.

“Providing 600 services offered by the state overall, this is a revolutionary project that will significantly change the landscape of state-private partnership, bringing it to another level,” Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Prime Minsiter of Georgia, said while introducing the project.

Business House will offer a better quality service faster, thus also limiting the costs of the service itself.

Introducing a customer friendly concept of “everything is available everywhere,” Business House will provide every service that may be needed by a company, with a possibility to book requested services in advance and receive them later on the spot. “A company submitting information to Business House will no longer be required to resubmit it for any other services that might be needed in the future, thus bringing maximum transparency to the process and limiting corruption,” the PM said.

In a long-term perspective the new Business House project is clearly seen as giant step towards stimulating the business climate in the country with a space that will bring new interaction between the state and private sectors.

Nino Gugunishvili