{"id":21204,"date":"2022-04-25T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=21204"},"modified":"2022-04-25T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:58:49","slug":"bpp-collaborating-with-world-bank-to-achieve-public-procurement-standard-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/04\/25\/bpp-collaborating-with-world-bank-to-achieve-public-procurement-standard-official\/","title":{"rendered":"BPP collaborating with World Bank to achieve public procurement standard \u2014 Official"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), says it is working to achieve the World Bank funded Sustainable Procurement Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement Project (SPESSE).<\/p>\n

The Director-General of BPP, Mamman Ahmadu said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja<\/a>, while expressing support to the SPESSE team in the bureau.<\/p>\n

Reports that the SPESSE is funded through the World Bank finance support.<\/p>\n

Ahmadu expressed resolve to support the SPESSE team and promised to engage all stakeholders<\/a> to key into the process of developing a professional procurement system that will meet global standard.<\/p>\n

He said that the SPESSE project was designed to start from 2020 \u2013 2024 with 23\u00a0ministries as pilot organisations.<\/p>\n

The statement also quoted Prof Bola Afolabi, a SPESSE<\/p>\n

Senior Procurement Specialist as saying \u201cthe project is aimed at professionalising procurement in Nigeria<\/a>\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

According to Afolabi, the set benchmark is to establish a professional procurement practice of world-class standard.<\/p>\n

He said that the programme would require about 80 million dollars\u00a0 to become fully operational.<\/p>\n

The procurement specialist said that 80 per cent of the budget was meant to establish centres of excellence where stakeholders would be trained and retrained to align with government policies.<\/p>\n

The statement also quoted Bayo Awosemusi, a procurement specialist with the World Bank as saying \u201call stakeholders, including private practitioners should be involved to enable the project succeed\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n