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Federal Government has inaugurated the Ministry of Niger Delta 2019 Procurement Planning Committee (PPC).
Permanent secretary of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Didi Walson-Jack, performed the inauguration, according to a statement issued by the Ministry on Thursday.
The Committee is constituted with the aim of ensuring that the programmes and activities of government are achieved through careful planning and prudent allocation of resources as well as its effective and efficient implementation, in line with the Public Procurement Act 2007.
While inaugurating the 7-member Committee, Thursday, in Abuja, Walson-Jack, who also serves as the chairman of the Committee, implored members to be “committed and synergise effectively in order to realise the common goal of moving our nation to a greater height.”
She urged the Committee that its responsibilities, as specified in the enabling Act, should be taken with all seriousness as well as ensures that they complied with due process.
The Ministry in a statement issued by Deworitshe Patricia, who heads the media and public relations unit, said the responsibilities of the committee include: preparation of the list of all known goods, works and services needed to achieve the goals for the procuring entity, evaluation of the list and dividing into contract packaging.
They also include carrying out appropriate market and statistical survey; analysing the cost implications of the proposed procurement; aggregation of the procurement requirements within the procuring entity and between procuring entities to obtain economy of scale and reduce procurement cost.
Others are prescribing appropriate methods for effecting the procurement, subject to the necessary approval of the Procurement Planning Committee; integration of procurement expenditure into the entity’s yearly budget; ensuring that no reduction of values or splitting of procurements is carried out in order to evade the use of the appropriate monetary threshold as well as ensuring that adequate appropriation is provided specifically for the procurement in the Federal budget.
According to the Permanent Secretary, these responsibilities amplified the significance of the Committee in procurement processes of the Ministry.
Walson-Jack, who reaffirmed government’s policy thrust in the Zero-based Budgeting (ZBB) system in implementing annual budgetary allocation, stated that the Ministry was expected to carefully scrutinize and justify its projects and programmes for which resources were allocated.
Amaechi Onyeagba, an Engineer and the deputy director, in the Department of Procurement of the Ministry said that the Committee had a lot of work to do for it had less than five months to achieve its mandate.
Amaechi also urged departments with projects to provide the Committee with details of their projects so that adverts could be procured immediately new Ministers assumed office.
Members of the Committee consist of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, representative of the Department/Unit directly in requirement of the procurement, Finance and Account Department, Planning, Research and Statistics Department, Technical Personnel, with expertise in the subject matter for each particular procurement, Legal Unit, Head of Procurement Department, as Secretary.
