The Bureau shall exercise the following functions-
- subject to the prior approval of the Governor, establish State Public Procurement policies and changes in the procurement process, and where necessary, cause such policies or changes to be gazette;
- Harmonize existing government policies, accountability and transparency in the procurement process;
- Establish pricing standards and benchmarks;
- Ensure that transparency, competitiveness, cost effectiveness and professionalism in the public sector procurement system is attained;
- Formulate the general policies guiding public sector procurement in the State;
- Publicize and explain the provisions of this Law, policies formulated or regulations made there under;
- Subject to set thresholds, certify state procurement prior to award of contract;
- Supervise the implementation of established procurement policies;
- monitor the prices of tendered items and keep state data base of standard prices;
- Publish the details of major contracts in the tender journal and media and ensure access to procurement documents to monitors and citizens;
- Maintain a state database of the particulars, classification and categorization of State contractors and service providers; and make it publicly available;
- publish paper and electronic editions of the tender journal and maintain an archival system for the tender journal;
- Collate and maintain in an archival system all State procurement plans and information;
- Undertake procurement research and survey;
- Organize training and development programmes for procurement officer;
- Periodically review, in collaboration with the State planning Commission, the socio-economic effects of the policies on procurement and advice Government accordingly;
- Prepare, update standard bidding, contract documents, and circulate same to Ministries, Departments and Agencies;
- Coordinate relevant training programmes to build in situational capacity;
- Collaborate with the Head of Service to create a procurement cadre in the Service;
- Review the procurement and award of contract procedures of every entity to which this Law applies; and
- Perform procurement audits of all procuring entities and submit such report to the State Executive Council annually.
