Kathmandu, Aug 28
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked
all public entities to make the entry of the details of the entire procurement
process in the e-GP System of the Public Procurement Management Office (PPMO)
within a month.
"Due to the unavailability of the
information of the entire procurement process, the PPMO has been facing
constraints in monitoring and assessing the procurement activities as
needed," said the PMO in a letter to the concerned agencies.
It has asked to submit all the details of
procurement, including contract award and contract management of more than Rs.
20 million.
The letter sent as urgent and
'confidential' by the PMO on 19 August is made public by the Ministry of
Federal Affairs and General Administration on Friday with its directions to the
respective agencies under the ministry to adhere to the request made by the
PMO.
The e-GP is the web-based centralised
e-Government Procurement System for nationwide public procurement management.
The one stop procurement portal covers various activities of public procurement
life cycle, including registration of bidders, procurement planning,
e-tendering, online evaluation, and contract management.
The e-GP system should be used by all
ministries, departments and agencies of the government and they can access the
system for the procurement information submission.
But the ministries and departments are not
entering all the information covering the procurement process despite a
provision that they must be doing the purchase activities via the e-GP system,
according to the Public Procurement Bylaws and Electronic Procurement System
Operation Guidelines.
"Many offices have submitted
information only up to the bid-opening stage and the activities beyond that are
not available in the system which has created challenges in assessing and
monitoring the contract activities and procurement works," said the PMO.
If the ministries were operating their own
contract award/contract management system, they should connect it with the e-GP
System and all the future contract award and management must be submitted to
the system, it said.
The PPMO is finding it handicapped in
monitoring and reviewing the contract process in the absence of the information
of the procurement at every stage.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 29 August 2020.
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