Africa-Press – Angola. From 2018 to June of the current year, the National Public Procurement Service (SNCP) accounted for 27% of the General State Budget (OGE) and 9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), reported Tuesday, at city of Saurimo, Lunda Sul, the representative of the institution, Indira Pires.
The official was speaking on the sidelines of the seminar on “Public Procurement in the Current Context”, promoted by the National Public Procurement Service (SNCP) in partnership with the provincial Finance Delegation.
Indira Pires said that this figure represents an improvement in transparency, competition and savings in public administration, thus creating business opportunities for entrepreneurs linked to the sector.
The SNCP, he added, registered during the period in question six thousand and 801 Public Procurement Procedures (PCP), triggered by contracting public entities.
In 2021, SNCP had the highest number of registrations in the order of 24%.
Of the number of procedures registered in five years, simplified contracting was the type that stood out the most, with 2,185 procedures, representing 32%, followed by public tenders, as the object action was the provision of services and public works.
The contracts entered into were related to the acquisition of goods/equipment and services from different government and municipal ministries.
Indira Pires appealed to contracting entities in the province to communicate about the procedures, as the number presented does not correspond to the records triggered.
For this reason, it is therefore necessary for there to be greater approximation and interaction between the SNCP and the contracting entities, in order for the information to be used for statistical data and for publication on the Public Works portal.
On the other hand, the official made it known that the SNCP, as the regulatory body of the public procurement service, also carries out compliance audits of training processes and the execution of public contracts.
In the period under review, 43 audits were carried out, emphasizing that the year 2020, with the highest number in the order of 47 percent, has shown several non-conformities, having verified 41 anomalies, one of which is the lack of communication when opening these procedures.
He also underlined that the failure to send the annual public procurement plan for the purposes of publication on the portal was also verified, important information for the economic operators themselves to know the pretensions of that financial year and better prepare themselves for improving the quality of expenditure and the needs of contracting entities.
The event was attended by local government officials, municipal administrators and their deputies, businessmen linked to the construction sector, technicians from the finance, infrastructure, association of engineers and architects of Angola and the Angolan association of designers and consultants.
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