The State as a smart consumer to carry out public procurement of innovation

This article analyzes the need for the State to make purchases with the help of electronic government, which is based on innovation and development policies, factors that would make it a smart consumer. This paper presents the evolution of purchasing models, from version 0.0 to version 4.0, as a reference framework to identify and self-determine the current state of any government entity in this area. Knowing the current point in which State purchases operate allows to devise and find improvements in the procurement models so that they are oriented and transform the requirements of the 4.0 procurement model, which enables progress towards the desired public procurement of innovation, with which would initiate a demand for products and services in an intelligent way.