The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) is ready to transfer federal authorities bidding absolutely on-line, with contractors and consultants to submit bids and proposals electronically with out physical interplay with officers.
The BPP Director General, Dr Adebowale Adedokun, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja on the Bureau’s strategic engagement with skilled our bodies on public procurement reforms.
He stated the digital authorities procurement system being developed by the Bureau would remove physical submission of bids and cut back human intervention within the procurement course of.
“Your bid, your proposition, you submit them, they also submit it to BPP online. We don’t need to see anybody. Let your documents speak for you,” Adedokun stated.
He stated the system would additionally stop procuring entities from deciding on contractors primarily based on private preferences, including that bidders would have to show their capability by the platform.
“You have to go to the system and prove your worth,” he stated.
Adedokun stated the Bureau was working to situation approvals and procurement paperwork digitally, with the goal of constructing them accessible inside seconds.
“We’ll digitalise our certificate, if we approve you now, you should get it in the next 30 seconds. Not one week. Not two weeks. Not three days. It should be instant,” he stated.
He stated procurement submissions from the Federal Ministry of Education and federal universities have been already being processed digitally by the PCOMS platform.
The BPP boss additionally disclosed plans for digital auditing of presidency companies, saying procurement paperwork can be submitted on-line and reviewed digitally, with physical intervention solely the place purple flags have been recognized.
“Right now, we audit randomly. Then we have lost information. Some projects are not started. But because we didn’t audit all content at the inception, the government is securing it. So this is what this solution is deriving at,” he stated.
Adedokun stated the Bureau was additionally introducing on-line group primarily based procurement for eligible initiatives valued at up to N30 million, permitting companies throughout the native authorities the place a challenge is situated to apply electronically.
He stated the reforms have been a part of efforts to cut back delays and enhance competitors and accountability in public procurement.
Adedokun linked the reforms to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s $1 trillion economic system goal, saying procurement couldn’t be managed successfully with out skilled our bodies and different stakeholders working collectively.
He stated procurement should assist native companies, create jobs and stimulate innovation as a part of the trouble to develop the economic system.
The President of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Aminu Mohammed Bashir, stated skilled our bodies would collaborate with the BPP on the reforms.
Bashir stated procurement required the participation of architects, engineers, amount surveyors, builders and different professionals.
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