As discussed in the paper the themes of governance and the sound management of public resources that are treated in the revised Agreement were not afterthoughts to the renegotiation rather they permeated the revised text and received focused attention from the Parties in their own right. Apart from the above the GPA revision is important for the merging of trade and good governance concerns that it exemplifies. In addition to the Agreement's plurilateral nature of particular interest are the approach taken with respect to application of the most-favored-nation (MFN) principle in the Agreement the GPA's continuing strong emphasis on principles of reciprocity in market access concessions and its approach to special and differential treatment for developing countries in all of which it differs from approaches that are widely used in other WTO Agreements. The paper discusses a number of specific design features of the GPA that clearly facilitated the successful conclusion of the renegotiation and that as such may in the future be relevant to other areas of global trade liberalization. The GPA's successful renegotiation the continuing growth of its membership and its vitality as an instrument of public policy were not achieved through happenstance. The revised GPA the negotiating processes that led to its adoption and coming into force and the continuing gradual broadening of its membership are of therefore interest for the evolution of the international trading system. In March 2012 the GPA Parties completed a comprehensive revision of the Agreement encompassing both its text and coverage (market access commitments). The WTO's plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement ("the GPA" or "the Agreement") is an important ongoing success story for the Organization.