Chang assures MSMEs of procurement support
Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Dr Horace Chang has assured the small business sector that the Government remains committed to a new procurement process to benefit Micro, Small and Medium-size Enterprises (MSME).
“Importantly this Government is facilitating a new procurement process that will set aside a proportion of government contracts for MSMEs,” Dr Chang told last Wednesday’s MSMEs’ Caribbean conference, hosted by the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) at the Hilton Rose Hall hotel in Montego Bay. Representatives from at least 18 Caribbean countries attended the conference.
The Government had indicated last year that recommendations in relation to the Procurement Offset Regulations would be expanded to include the private sector and enable greater participation of MSMEs in public procurement.
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