{"id":2749,"date":"2017-08-01T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:57:00","slug":"chang-assures-msmes-of-procurement-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/chang-assures-msmes-of-procurement-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang assures MSMEs of procurement support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister<\/strong> 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).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cImportantly this Government is facilitating a new procurement process that will set aside a proportion of government contracts for MSMEs,\u201d Dr Chang told last Wednesday\u2019s MSMEs\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2771,"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":[124,135,71,134],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-jamaica","tag-msmes","tag-procurement","tag-rule"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Small-business-Kaique-Rocha-pexels.jpeg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-Il","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36018,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/government-opens-doors-for-msmes-in-public-procurement\/","url_meta":{"origin":2749,"position":0},"title":"Government opens doors for MSMEs in public procurement","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"August 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Jamaica The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC), through the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), successfully concluded a four-part island wide Public Procurement Readiness Project Workshop series, aimed at building the capacity of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to successfully bid for public sector contracts. 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