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Procurement without Bidding Process: OAG report

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Procurement without Bidding Process: OAG report
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February 7: Some government agencies and local governments were found to have procured goods and services without soliciting bids, according to a report published by Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).
The 2018/19 report of the Office of Auditor General – the constitutional budget oversight agency – has painted a bleak picture of most of the district-based government bodies.
It is mandatory for the concerned public entity to call quotations for open competition. Nevertheless, the competition has been made with limited forms and entities, RSS reported. Such practices have created ample spaces for fiduciary malaises, the report stated.
According to the OAG report, most of the district-based government offices were found to have purchased goods in bit and pieces against the procurement rule.
According to the Public Procurement Act, the procurement of goods above a certain limit should be done at once.
Most of the government offices and local governments are found to have proceeded the procurement without master plan and annual procurement plan.
The offices were also found be apathetic to execute the given responsibilities, reads the report. It has affected revenue collection and protection of public properties as well as relegated the public service to backburner.
According to RSS, the status of fiscal transparency is worse in local government than in federal government offices. However, the central government offices are also found to be working in an unsystematic manner.
Even the district administration offices were not found maintaining data and records systematically.

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