By Rosemary Wayo
Tamale, Aug 27, GNA – A total of 24,349 suppliers have been registered on the Ghana Electronic Procurement System (GHANEPS) since its launch by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in 2019.
Mr Kwame Prempeh, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), who announced this, said the system had so far awarded 435 contracts with 21.6 million value contracts generated.
The system has also created 576 and 4,952 entities and entity users, respectively.
He stated that 448 entities, 2,464 procurement officers, 2,234 suppliers and 2,742 other management staff were trained on the GHANEPS in 167 training sessions.
Mr Prempeh gave the figures while addressing the closing ceremony of a five-day stakeholder training in Tamale, organised by the PPA in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government.
The training was held to equip supply procurement officers and planners within the five regions of the North, who worked with institutions under the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Project, with the needed skills to enable them to use GHANEPS for procurement activities.
GHANEPS is a collaborative web-based system developed under the requirement of public procurement laws to facilitate procurement processes in the country.
The electronic procurement system supported various public procurement procedures, including user registration, tender preparations, tender notification and submission, online tender evaluation and contract award, among others.
Mr Prempeh said GHANEPS had created 1,097 tenders with an average of seven suppliers per tender and 808 suppliers participated in open bids.
He said the trained procurement officers were expected to share knowledge with others within the field to ensure that the procurement system could be used to achieve its intended purpose.
GNA