Public Contracts: Stakeholders Get Technical Guide

The Road Fund amongst others, seeks to reduce delays in settling bills.

Contracting authorities, procurement commissioners, service providers and public administrative officials of the public works chain have sharpened skills on the Technical Guide put in place to ease procedures by the Road Fund, a satellite of the Ministry of Public Works. They met at a one-day training at Yaounde yesterday December 20, 2016, to understand the new working tool ceremony chaired by the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Works, Louis Max Ayina Ohandja.

The training followed complaints by stakeholders, the Administrator of the Road Fund, Jean Claude Atanga Bikoe revealed. He explained that synchronizing the interventions of actors was becoming daunting especially at a time the Road Fund was on a crusade to speed up processing operations so as to contribute to the smooth execution of projects. He said new service providers have little knowledge of Road Fund procedures. Added to this is the processing time of files for the payment of bills.

Figures reveal that the rejection of poorly constituted files have dropped to 3 per cent in 2015 as against 34 per cent in 2010. This notwithstanding, the figures must be brought to naught, Jean Claude Atanga Bikoe stressed. He said the need to harmonise the ...