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July 9, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) has scrutinized a total of 24,554 tender notices of public sector entities involving multi-billion rupees procurements and found 1,606 deviations from the public procurement rules during the last financial year 2020-21.
The PPRA monitors all the advertisements/tenders related to procurement on a real-time basis through its web portal, with a view to ensuring compliance with the Public Procurement Rules, 2004. During FY2020-21, a total of 24,554 tender notices of Public Sector Organizations were uploaded and monitored, wherein 1,606 deviations from the Public Procurement Rules, 2004 were pointed out to the concerned procurement agencies for taking remedial measures. It is claimed that the PPRA Rules compliance has been improved by approximately 12 percent in the last fiscal year.
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The amendments were introduced after several govt entities sought exemptions from the PPRA rules
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ISLAMABAD:
The federal cabinet has amended the procurement rules to allow the government to award contracts to the state-owned enterprises without floating public tenders, which may compromise transparency in public sector deals.
The federal government notified the amended Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules on June 29 after approval from the cabinet, according to the notification.
According to the amended rule 42 (f), “A procuring agency may engage in direct contracting with state-owned entities such as professional, autonomous or semi-autonomous organizations or bodies of the federal or provincial governments for the procurement of such works and services, including consultancy services, which are time-sensitive and in t
By Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) has refused to endorse the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCCA) request of exclusivity for negotiated tendering with a single party of the UK for holding examinations of Pakistani pilots and recommended to engage in open competitive tendering process.
According to the findings of PPRA, PCCA in its letter dated April 14, 2021 has sought advice of the PPRA regarding negotiated tendering with a single party i.e. UK Civil Aviation Authority-International (UK CAA) keeping in view the provisions Rule 42(d) (i) & (i) that allow such negotiated tendering on the following basis:
Technical or artistic reasons or the reasons connected with protection of exclusive rights or intellectual property, and for reasons of extreme urgency (due to unforeseeable events not attributable to the Procuring Agency).