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Ministry
to start IT based procurement system this week
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ADDIS
ABEBA(August 4,2008) - The Ministry of Capacity Building
(MoCB) planned to begin a new procurement system as of August 7, 2008
as a pilot project.
The new procurement process will be carried out through email, ministry
officials said adding that the system will make the process much easier
giving equal opportunity to the suppliers and service providers.
It also reduces wastage of time and resources, eliminates the possibility
of corruption and irregularities.
The officials said the system will let commodity suppliers and service
providers declare prices to the ministry through e-mail.
Alemnesh Worku, Head of Civil Service reform office at the ministry
said on Friday that the former system was simple and fragile for corruption.
But, she said, the new system will eliminate corruption.
The project was prepared and evaluated by financial experts, procurement
professionals and civil service consultants who expressed believes
that it would be effective.
The head explained that the specific and general procurement notice
will be released ahead of time and the suppliers will be prepared
and send the quotations via email in the new system.
"…there will be three individuals who verify the email,
each of them knows the two words of the password and one can not do
anything alone. … this for sure forbids them from being corrupted",
Anley Menegesha, Head of Procurement and Finance at the ministry said
at the press conference held on Friday.
Anley also said the ministry has already announced the new system
and invited the business community to send their addresses for the
preparation of a data base. "50 companies were registered. However,
only 28 of them took part in the meeting we have prepared to discuss
on the new system", he said.
Anley said the purchasing order of the ministry will be made to the
winner supplier or service provider through e-mail as well.
The ministry also announced that, there is a possibility to extend
the new system to be applied in the procedures of other government
institutions, after the trial implementation.
The new system is part of the Business Process Reengineering.
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