Chronic quantitative and qualitative weaknesses affecting the performance of the National Procurement and Tender Administration (NPTA) system and which are yet to secure the attention of the political administration are likely to continue to seriously affect the efficiency of the tender process.
It will also create snags in government’s efforts to expedite projects identified for funding under the provisions of the recently promulgated 2015 budget, a source close to the Tender Administration has told this newspaper.
“Now that the budget is out of the way there will be a rush by the various ministries and other government agencies to have tenders expedited so that they can press ahead with important projects. We are heading towards a situation where the public servants who deal with aspects of tender administration will probably be seriously overworked.
