Sole-Sourcing Hinders Competition
The Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation, Anthony Akoto Osei, has downplayed suggestions for government to consider sole sourcing its contracts. The Deputy Minority Leader, James Kludze Avedzi, had...
Tag: Government procurement
Abandoning Sole-Sourcing Will ‘cripple’ Akufo-Addo’s Gov’t – Avedzi
The Deputy Minority Leader, James Kludze Avedzi has urged caution on government’s decision to totally forgo the use of sole-sourcing in the award of government contracts. The New Patriotic Party...
Abandoning Sole-Sourcing Will ‘cripple’ Akufo-Addo’s Gov’t – Avedzi
The Deputy Minority Leader, James Kludze Avedzi has urged caution on government’s decision to totally forgo the use of sole-sourcing in the award of government contracts. The New Patriotic Party...
Eight Top Fire Officers Hot Over Breach of Procurement Act
Eight top officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) have been cited by a Criminal Investigations Department (CID) report of the Ghana Police Service for breaching the Procurement Act in the...
Akufo-Addo Appoints 1st Public Procurement Authority CEO As Boss Again
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Agyei as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority. Mr Boateng Agyei is heading back to a position he...
Agyenim Boateng Adjei Appointed Procurement Authority CEO
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority in accordance with the Public Procurement Authority Act 2003. The...
Agyenim Boateng Adjei Appointed New Procurement Authority CEO
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority in accordance with the Public Procurement Authority Act 2003. The...
Government To Transform National Sports College Into A Centre of Excellence
The government of Ghana has revealed plans to revamp the redundant Winneba Sports college and transform it into a Centre of Excellence This move by the government was made public by the Minister of...
Procurement Law Needs Amendment
The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has called for the amendment of the current procurement law to empower the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to conduct value for money...
Adwoa Safo Calls For More Power For Procurement Authority
The Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament, Adwoa Safo, is pushing for the amendment of the public procurement act to give the Procurement Authority, the powers to conduct value for money auditing on...
Gov’t Spends GHC 20 Million On Advertisement For Procurement Annually – Smartbid CEO
The Chief Executive Officer of Smartbid Ghana Company Limited says government spends about twenty million Cedis annually on publication and advertisement for procurement. According to the Co-founder...
Energy Contracts Had Value For Money
Every contract awarded in the power sector in Ghana followed due process, hence assertions by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that deals in the power sector had no value for money are...
Gov’t Spends GHC 20bn On Advertisement For Procurement Annually – Smartbid CEO
The Chief Executive Officer of Smartbid Ghana Company Limited says government spends about twenty Billion Cedis annually on publication and advertisement for procurement. According to the Co-founder...
Court Orders National Sports Authority
The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has given the green light for properties belonging to the National Sports Authority (NSA) to be confiscated to offset a $380,000 judgement debt that it...
“Tackle Widespread Corruption”
Managers of the country’s economy have been asked to put in place measures to help check widespread corruption in the country. Kenneth Kwamina Thompson, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dalex...
Corruption Has Taken Ghana To the Dark Ages
Mr Kenneth Kwamina Thompson, the Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, has observed that the widespread corruption in the public sector has taken the country to the dark ages. He, therefore,...
Fighting Waste and Corruption Starts At Presidency
The many campaign promises by all the major parties notwithstanding, the 2016 elections were fought principally over only a few critical issues, and of these issues austerity (cost of living) and...
Fighting Waste and Corruption Starts At the Presidency
The many campaign promises by all the major parties notwithstanding, the 2016 elections were fought principally over only a few critical issues, and of these issues austerity (cost of living) and...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated that government will tighten the bolts on sole sourcing and go strictly by the provisions of the Public Procurement Act. “We want to ensure strict...
We’ll Help Ghana To Eradicate Corruption- US Ambassador
The United States Ambassador, Robert P. Jackson, has reiterated his country’s commitment to support Ghana to undertake reforms and policies geared towards eradicating corruption from the public...