Procurement Graduates - Sierra Leone

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I’m back to updating this account on the latest issues surrounding procurement and logistics Sierra Leone 🇸🇱

A warm welcome and lots of good wishes on becoming part of our growing team. Congratulations and on behalf of the Procurement Graduates team, I'm wishing everyone a blissful New Year 2022. A year of personal growth with positive mindset towards achieving that set goal, together we can make a change in Sierra Leone!
Once again, welcome to all new members from all academic Institutions.

Hello Colleagues, today our lesson will focus on Procurement ACTS AND REGULATIONS.

Public Procurement Acts and regulations. Simply, an act to regulate public procurement in the Government of the Republic and for related matters. This act may be cited as the public procurement act, it shall apply to all procurement undertaken by a procuring entity except where it is provided otherwise in the act.

The objective of the Authority is to harmonise the processes of public procurement in the public service to secure a judicious, economic and efficient use of state resources in public procurement and ensure that public procurement is carried out in a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory, environmentally and socially sustainable manner.

Further down contains the public procurement acts and regulations and any other Act(s) and Regulations relating to Public Procurement.
(A) Public Procurement Regulations 2020
(B) The Anti Corruption Act, 2000
(C) The NRA Act, 2002
(D) The NASSIT Act, 2001
(E) The Local Government Act, 2004
(F) The Government Budgeting and Accountability Act, 2005
(G) The Public Procurement Act 2016

The above listed acts and regulations are documents that closely work with NPPA as a legit body.

However, I may close with this words. "Procurement is the overall process of acquiring goods, works and services including all functions from the identification of needs, selection and solicitation if sources, preparation and award of contract, and all phases of contract administration or the useful life of an asset."

Mr. Ibrahim Brima Swarray
(CE - NPPA)

Hello Colleagues, welcome to the month of September. We have been working closely with senior officials to bring you content and information within the parameters of Public Procurement Management in Sierra Leone.

Today, our opening lectures starts with the introduction of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA).
The National Public Procurement Authority was established under the Public Procurement Act of 2004 to perform oversight functions and advise the Government of Sierra Leone on Public Procurement Management. Public Procurement is a significant means through which the government of Sierra Leone meets its development needs through the provisions of physical infrastructure and the supply of essential goods and services.

Since the establishment of NPPA, Public Procurement expenditure in Sierra Leone has increased significantly, thus bearing increasing pressure on NPPA more than ever before to perform it's duties more vigorously and in a more professional manners ensuring government of Sierra Leone spends it's money wisely and delivers best value for money.

Today, NPPA has it new Chief Executive Director as Mr Ibrahim Brima Swarray. With his experience and passion for his work, we have seen a new era of NPPA in Sierra Leone with decentralized operational system. It's regional offices are in Bo, Makeni and Kenema.
However, Mr Ibrahim Brima Swarray is proud of his recent engagement with procurement practitioners of all MDAs which ensures transparency and accountability in public procurement. He's very passionate about ensuring the effectiveness of NPPA as a regulator and principal adviser to the Government of Sierra on all procurement activities.

Our next activities will be knowing the various MDAs that work closely with the NPPA, how the help relate to the growth and development of Sierra Leone.

Hello everyone, I'm delighted to see more people liking our page. It's our concern to make everyone comfortable and boldly communication the purpose of us being here. However, as administrator I admonish all to feel welcome, we are working closely with other high profile members to bring you information that will keep you busy and updates from both the NPPA and other institutions.
Welcome!!!

Good morning colleague procurement and logistics practitioners across Sierra Leone.
It's been a while ago, I posted my last message. I was overwhelmed to see more people liking the page and the momentum is getting high everyday.
As said earlier, this platform was created to give more insight to young professionals from various universities in Sierra Leone to upkeep there minds in the ongoing activities of public procurement and redefining the new path to the process of getting hired and staying put.
However, in the following weeks ahead I will be here again to start my first topic of discussion. I encourage all to participate in the process as we make things better.
Also, kindly tell others to join and let's keep it rolling, together we can achieve and change the past narratives of procurement practices in Sierra Leone.

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Good evening Colleagues, Procurement Graduates Sierra Leone page is all about keeping young graduates abreast to the legal system and instruments used within the procurement sectors at public and private Institutions. We need a forum to keep us alert and remind us of things we have done few years back.
Please let's invite our colleagues, we need everyone aboard. Let's refresh our memories and stay strong to face interviews and exams whenever we are opportune.
I once again humbly welcome new members to this page and encourage you all to stay for good as this page will soon commence it activities.

WHAT IS PUBLIC PROCUREMENT?
Public procurement refers to the process by which public authorities, such as government departments or local authorities, purchase work, goods and services from businesses.


Going further, we do asked ourselves
WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT?
The goal of public procurement is the award of timely and cost-effective contracts to qualified contractors, suppliers and service providers for the provision of goods, works and services to support government and public service operations, in accordance with the principles and procedures established in the public procurement regulations.

let's closely look at;
ENSURING GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY THROUGH INTEGRITY
Public procurement is one of the government activities highlight vulnerable to corruption.
The financial interests at stake, the volume of transactions and close interaction between public and private sectors in the award of public contract all poses risks to integrity.
As practitioners, we must ensure accountability and integrity should be treated with all seriousness, to avoid wastage and provide best returns of taxpayers money.

Unethical practices can occur in all phases of the public procurement cycle (pre-tendering, tendering and post-award phases). However, each phase may be prone to specific kinds of integrity risks.
We must stand tall to observe the 12 principles of public procurement, thus:
Transparency
Integrity
Economy
Openness
Fairness
Competition and
Accountability etc..

Effective public procurement system can help government see better value for money, reduce pressure on public budgets, and leave MDA's better prepared to invite private investments.

Thank you all!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the Procurement Graduates - Sierra Leone page!

It's always a pleasure to meet you at this public page. Your presence in such impressive numbers speak to the relevance of the role of public procurement in Sierra Leone. It stands as testimony to the high expectations that you have of this page, and which the Procurement Graduates - Sierra Leone should certainly strive to fulfill.

As I have said many times before, it's to your needs as young graduates that this page must cater, and I certainly hope that this page will enable the entire student graduants and graduates alike, to better keep their "fingers on the pulse" to speak. In other words, to better enhance your knowledge and understanding of how we the young graduates can do things better in the future.

The objective of the procurement graduates page is for sudents committing to performance service standards, upholding th principles of public procurement which includes transparency, competition, fairness and equitable treatment of bidders. Understanding the legal instruments of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA): Reviewed - Public Procurement Manual 2020, Public Procurement Acts and Regulations 2020, Standard Bidding Documents, Procurement plans, Price Norms etc.

Ladies and Gentlemen, my desire as procurement practitioner is to see procurement graduates capable of handling all their instruments and tenders including other relevant functions that will pave way for effective oversight and regulatory role on public procurement in Sierra Leone.

It's my expectation that young graduates within these procuring entities abandoned the old narratives and once realize the benefit of working together in pursuit of an efficient procurement system.

More seriously, it's my hope that you will share your thoughts here over the course of our journey and every topic that I would raised, and more. Let this be a learning page for us all.

Thank you for you

Officially July 1, 2021
This page will be launched.
I encourage all procurement graduates and continuing students from various universities in Sierra Leone to participate.

Procurement is a process not an event. As young graduates, we have all what it takes to resuscitate Procurement in Sierra Leone.

We have a task in hand to bring more innovative ideas on the table. Sustainable procurement practices generally leads to sustainable development and that's why we are here!

Procurement Graduates - Sierra Leone is a page created for young graduates to explore and familiarize themselves with various issues surrounding Public Procurement in Sierra Leone. However, as young professionals we have the power at hand to change or revert old narratives of procurement officers to something that will substantially improve public service delivery whilst reducing the perception and actual occurrence of corruption in public procurement in Sierra Leone.

Inasmuch as the NPPA had made available the procurement manual and public procurement regulations (Statutory Instrument). We need more insight to work in accordance with these documents as; sound public procurement practices and policies are essential aspects of sound governance. Good procurement practices can reduce costs and produce timely service delivery, poor procurement practices generally leads to delays and waste and are often the course of government inefficiency and allegations of corruption.

With this short message, I therefore welcome you all to this forum as we enjoy the right to participate with the love for country and humanity!