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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT COMMISSION events in focus: Annual Procurement Week 2020
The Public Procurement Commission hosted a week of activities in November 2020 in observance of its annual Procurement Week, in keeping with this year’s theme: Small Businesses in Public Procurement – The Local Experience. The activities included a Virtual Symposium hosted via the Zoom platform,...
Published 2020-12-10T16:04:28
Public Procurement in the time of COVID-19
The public health emergency that faced Guyana from the middle of January 2020, occasioned by the COVID-19 Pandemic, has highlighted the weakness of the existing legislative framework for public procurement in not having measures or provisions to specifically deal with emergency public procurement...
Published 2020-12-10T16:12:03
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM (PPS) CAPACITY BUILDING TASK FORCE LAUNCHED
The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) launched a PPS Capacity Building Task Force on December 2, 2020, aimed at ensuring that the appropriate mechanisms, which will facilitate valued and sustainable procurement results and professionalization of the public procurement function, exist within the...
Published 2020-12-10T15:43:07
Legislation Reform Activities of the Commission.
The Commission conducts reviews of existing legislation to ensure that public procurement is always conducted in a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. In 2018, the Commission conducted research on procurement legislation of other jurisdictions, including Trinidad, India, etc. and mad...
Published 2020-12-10T15:29:06