Making new public procurement reforms work

Engr. Emeka Ezeh

DOING it right in the award of contracts or procurement inspired the first National Conference on Public Procurement early November in Abuja, where President Goodluck Jonathan directed that only contractors whose records were in the government’s database would be approved for business. Besides, those blacklisted by the World Bank, African Development Bank and other international bodies, are to be barred from public procurement. The presidential fiat will take effect from 2015; and the Bureau of Public Procurement has been ordered to see it through.

......prosecutes 156 companies for forgery

The Federal Government is currently prosecuting 156 companies for tendering forged procurement documents, while bidding for contracts. The Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement, Mr. Emeka Ezeh, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at a forum with contractors, consultants and service providers to Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government. The forum, organised by the BPP, was held in order to provide an update on the implementation of the reform in the public procurement system, explain the provisions of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 as they affect contractors as well as enhance the implementation of the 2014 federal budget.