Fergus Drake
Procurement analyst, Fergus Drake, has called on government to put in place a competitive bidding process to award contracts to ensure value for money for Ghanaian taxpayers.
He also wants government to ban contractors who inflate the cost of government projects from bidding for new contracts.
“What you want is most suppliers who can actually bid on something because then through that competitive process, you can learn to have a very good procurement process.”
Mr. Drake, in an interview with Citi News, mentioned that as part of a competitive bidding process for government contracts, individuals who misappropriate funds must be made to account for them
Mr. Drake, who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Crown agents, appealed to government to ensure a system that monitors performance management of public officials and provides feedback on accountability, adding that it facilitates organizational goals.
“You have to hold people to account if they fail. You need stronger performance management, so then when someone implements a poor project you can hold them to account and bar them from other procurement going forward.”
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, last week, revealed that the budget often allocated for one hospital project in Ghana can build five more.
According to him, such huge inflation in project cost arises from a myriad of problems such as corruption.
He made the revelation while delivering an address at a ‘Value for Money’ Conference in Accra on Monday, June 25th, 2018.
Citinews.com