TVC E, BUSINESS – The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has directed contractors doing business with the Federal Government to register on the e-procurement database by December.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja, BPE Public Relations Officers (PRO) Thomas Odemwingie, noted that the e-procurement platform would help fast-track the procurement process and eliminate fraud.
“We are trying to register, classify and categorise consultants, service providers and contractors who are doing business with or intend to do business with the government. The whole idea is to ensure that all companies with the same level of competence and also with the same resources are clustered in such a way that they can compete with each other,” he explained.
Odemwingie said the BPP now has a database, and “we encourage you to register on this database and you will get a code so that when you sign in using that code, people will know about your competencies’’.
He said with the new process, there would be no need for any physical contact with the procuring entity. The process would also eliminate the whole inter-face that predisposes procurement system to corruption.
