The Procurement Cycle begins with the identification of a need and ends with the award of a contract. The…
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The goal of public procurement is to award timely and cost-effective contracts to qualified contractors, suppliers and service providers…
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Due Process is a Mechanism for ensuring strict compliance with openness, competition and cost accuracy rules and procedures that…
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Welcome to the Cross River State Due Process and Price Intelligence Bureau (DPPIB) of Public Procurement Website. This website is another major IEC (Information, Education and Communication) tool intended to bridge the communication gap between the Cross River State Government and other external stakeholders (including prospective contractors/service providers, NGOs, CSO, and the general public) in matters regarding the Public Procurement in the State. This website intends to:
Inform and educate stakeholders on the importance of the new public procurement regime in the State and attendant benefits for economic growth and poverty alleviation Build Stakeholder buy-in and trust in the procurement process as well as encourage their active participation Advertise all invitations for Bids (IfB) falling within the National and International Competitive bidding as well as Requests for Expression of Interest (REoI) for consultancy services and more
Contract Awards in Cross River State for 4TH Quarter 2021 under SIFTAS DLI 12_2
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Transparency in public procurement is important. Information on the public procurement process must be made available to all public procurement stakeholders: contractors, suppliers, service providers, and the public at large, unless there are valid and legal reasons for keeping certain information confidential. Examples of confidential information are: proprietary information belonging to companies or individuals
Integrity is essentially reliability. Bidders, and all other stakeholders, must be able to rely on any information disseminated by the procuring entity, formally or informally. The integrity of the procurement process assures confidence in the public procurement system. When solicitation documents are made publicly available, the information they contain must be dependable and free of ambiguities or bias.
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Synonymous with efficiency, value for money, and commercially reasonable price, the principle of economy emphasizes the need to manage public funds with care and due diligence so that prices paid for goods, services and works are acceptable and represent good value for the public funds expended on them.
Everyone associated with the public procurement process or directly responsible for facilitating the acquisition of .
Public procurement requirements should be open to all qualified organizations and individuals. The public should also have access to information pertaining to public procurement requirements. Access to public procurement information is not absolute. Confidential and proprietary information belonging to organizations and individuals participating in process should not be available publicly, and the extent of their disclosure should be detailed in .
There are different interpretations of fairness in public procurement, so rather than define fairness as treating all bidders equally, better to mention how fairness is achieved in public procurement.
To achieve fairness in the public procurement process:
Decision–making and actions must be unbiased, and no preferential treatment should be extended to individuals or.
The public procurement process should not be manipulated for the benefit of any organization or individual. Given that public procurement is funded primarily with tax payers’ money, all eligible organizations and individuals should be allowed to participate by submitting offers in response to a specific requirement for which they are qualified.
Public procurement requirements should be widely disseminated to increase the chances of a good market response,.
Accountability in public procurement means that anyone involved in the procurement process is responsible for their actions and decisions with respect to the public procurement process.
As public servants, procurement practitioners, and others involved in the public procurement process, are accountable and exposed to sanctions as a remedy for any behavior that contravenes the public procurement rules. You .
