The cases of financial malfeasance in public procurement have been attributed to the delay on the part of government to pay contractors. There have been many cases in recent times where the cost of some government projects have been bloated, causing the country to lose a lot of revenue. Some of these projects include the … Read more
The cases of financial malfeasance in public procurement have been attributed to the delay on the part of government to pay contractors. There have been many cases in recent times where the cost of some government projects have been bloated, causing the country to lose a lot of revenue. Some of these projects include the … Read more
Government will soon introduce a procurement policy that will bond its agencies and large companies operating in the country to source majority of their raw materials and inputs from local producers once such inputs are available, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, a Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, has said. “The policy will also mandate foreigners in the … Read more
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated that government will tighten the bolts on sole sourcing and go strictly by the provisions of the Public Procurement Act. “We want to ensure strict enforcement of the Public Procurement Act; looking at the bill as it was designed, sole sourcing was not supposed to be as rampant … Read more
The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) wants a National Procurement Strategy (NPS) that will localise procurement at both the national and district levels, totrigger the revival of ailing industries. President of the institute, Collins Agyemang, told the B&FT that: “If we really want to industrialise and develop to give people the kind of … Read more