{"id":17347,"date":"2021-07-08T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=17347"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:38:11","slug":"straughn-new-procurement-bill-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/straughn-new-procurement-bill-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Straughn: New procurement bill coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new procurement bill is in the works, says Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn, while maintaining that the procurement and tendering for Government contracts is already equitable.<\/p>\n

He was responding to a question from moderator David Ellis on Voice Of Barbados\u2019 Brass Tacks Sunday radio call-in programme. Ellis had asked how the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) intended to fulfil its 2018 election manifesto promise of ensuring small contractors received more work.<\/p>\n

While stating that the Government\u2019s procurement process was above board, the minister said they had already made steps to ensure fairness with amendments to the Financial Management Act two years ago, but would be going a step further to ensure they reached all the contractors directly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a new procurement bill that I will introduce later this year. But for the record, when we passed the Financial Management Act in January 2019, we amended the financial rules to introduce the specific procurement rules for enfranchisement.\u00a0(TG)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A new procurement bill is in the works, says Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn, while maintaining that the procurement and tendering for Government contracts is already equitable….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":17350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[129,224,125],"class_list":["post-17347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-barbados","tag-project","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-thirdman-5060979-scaled-e1646951879770.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-4vN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27631,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/govt-starts-web-based-procurement-system-that-replaces-paper-based-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":17347,"position":0},"title":"Gov\u2019t starts web-based procurement system that replaces paper-based process","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"April 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Barbados Individuals and companies supplying goods and services to the Government have to register under a revamped public procurement system that Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs Ryan Straughn says will make doing business with the government hassle-free. 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