The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) will soon be approving regulatory guidelines for the debarment of those contractors who have failed to perform.
This is according to a response provided by the Finance Ministry to the Audit Office, according to the 2015 Auditor General’s Report.
The move follows a decision by the board earlier this year to raise the ministerial and regional tender board limits.
Minister of Finance Winston Jordan had announced in his 2016 budget speech that Cabinet had approved the ministerial and regional tender board limits, so as to empower ministries and regions to undertake more in-house evaluations.
The Auditor General’s report explains that a consultancy firm had been hired to draft regulations under the Procurement Act setting out the procedures to be followed by the Public Procurement Commission/NPTAB in adjudicating debarment proceedings and examine and make recommendations on revisions to the regulations, with a view to increasing the threshold limits in light of current prices and the fact that the last increase in limits was in November, 2004.
These drafts have since been completed and the increase in threshold values was passed in February, 2015.
