Procurement - Tracker Namibia ‘‘ ’’

The promulgation and implementation e stakeholderse to assur of the Public Procurement Act of 2015 was Allow m PBN will work t irelessly that the C its mandate , and we supposed to turn the page on such issues to execute tronger workin g and concerns, but to date has not, as the will foster s s with all the The staff compl ement as spectre of corruption in public procure- relationship hilst remain. [...] of the public procurement contracts awarded in the That said, as of July 2018, transparency in the public pro- curement realm remains an immense concern, even as the 2017/18 financial year were awarded by the Central new procurement dispensation was meant to inject greater Procurement Board transparency into public procurement practices. [...] That said, besides exemptions apparently looming large over Under the old Tender Board of Namibia system, the use of the procurement landscape, other forms of discretionary deci- exemptions escalated dramatically between the 2006/07 and sion-making also appear to have featured prominently on the 2012/13 financial years, when exemptions for the first time public procurement landscape in the 2017/18. [...] The suspected widespread use of exemptions and calls for That said, the apparent increased exempting of procurement quotations only raises more doubts about the legality of a lot from normal tender processes was one of the issues which of the state’s procurement practices, and certainly undermines bedeviled public procurement in the past under the old Tender any sense of consistency in rules appli. [...] In light of this and consid- This raises the spectre of corruption, waste and mismanage- ering all the shortcomings of the implementation of the Public ment having attached to much of the procuring that was done Procurement Act to date, it can hardly be claimed that Namibia by the state in the 2017/18 financial year.