District Tender Boards created – HPS Seventeen District Tender Boards have been created in the 10 administrative regions of Guyana, at the request of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. This was revealed by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon during his post-Cabinet media briefing today at the Office of the President. Dr. Luncheon explained that the District Boards would occupy the lowest tier in the procurement architecture in Guyana’s public sector, “ranging from the highest level of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, this is now the lowest, the District Tender Board, and the Ministerial Departmental and Regional Tender Board.” The HPS added that all Tender Boards have prescribed limits within which they are competent to make awards and are gazetted for the newly created boards at the district level. The District Tender Boards would deal with procurement of goods and services within the limit of $100,000 to $249, 999. Any sum above that range would have to go to the National Tender Board. For construction projects the limit at the level of the District Tender Board would be from $100,000 to $599, 999 and for consultative projects, the range is from $100,000 to $399, 999. The National Procurement and Tender Administration (NPTA) was established in accordance with Section 16 (1) of the Procurement Act 2003 which came into effect in November 2004, with the signing of the Order by the Minister of Finance. The mission of NPTA is to facilitate the establishment and implementation of regulatory environment conducive to transparency, economy, efficiency, openness, fairness and accountability in public sector procurement. The main functions assigned to NPTA under Section 17 of the Procurement Act 2003 include the processing of all procurement above the thresholds laid down for the Ministerial, Regional, Departmental and District Tender Boards, which involve Bid Openings, Nomination of Evaluation Committees, Review of Evaluation Reports, Preparation of Cabinet Memoranda, Issuing Approvals, Policy assistance, capacity building and monitoring in the areas of Issuance and dissemination of the Act, Regulations, directives, procedures and standard bidding documents among other functions.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:53:08 +0000
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