{"id":392926,"date":"2018-01-22T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=392926"},"modified":"2018-01-22T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:36:32","slug":"reduce-sole-sourcing-to-barest-minumum-gips-charges-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/reduce-sole-sourcing-to-barest-minumum-gips-charges-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce sole sourcing to ‘barest minumum’ – GIPS charges gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) has advised government to intensify efforts at reducing the sole sourcing of government projects.<\/p>\n
This, it believes, will help address corruption and the inflation of contract sums.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”hnmT7KrecgiE2adDmV1OWsZ2poicAyoh”]Last Wednesday, President Akufo Addo announced that government had reduced the reliance on sole sourcing contracts.<\/p>\n
Comparing his first year in office to the final year of the Mahama government in 2016, President Akufo-Addo noted that, in the year 2016, the Public Procurement Authority had \u201c622 sole source requests. 577 of that number were approved and there were 25 rejections.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were 592 requests made for restricted tenders, and 587 were approved and there were five rejections. A grand total of zero savings were made through the procurement process,\u201d he outlined.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut in 2017, 394 sole sourcing requests were made out of which 223 were approved and 171 were rejected. There were 346 requested for restricted tenders and 167 were approved and 179 were rejected,\u201d the President stated.<\/p>\n