{"id":4781,"date":"2018-03-09T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:20:06","slug":"central-purchasing-department-is-now-government-procurement-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/central-purchasing-department-is-now-government-procurement-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Purchasing Department is now Government Procurement Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Purchasing Department\u2019s name has been changed to the Government Procurement Department, to reflect its new mandate.<\/p>\n<p>According to Acting Chief Procurement Officer, Janice Worrell, the Department would no longer be focusing on purchasing supplies on behalf of other Ministries and departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government Procurement Department will focus on the negotiation of contracts with suppliers and selecting those suppliers from among the list of Approved Suppliers that best meet the needs of the Public Service. Those successful suppliers will be the ones Ministries and departments will purchase from for the given period,\u201d Worrell explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationnews.com\/nationnews\/news\/134658\/central-purchasing-department-government-procurement-department\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebluediamondgallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Blue Diamond Gallery<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Purchasing Department\u2019s name has been changed to the Government Procurement Department, to reflect its new mandate. According to Acting Chief Procurement Officer, Janice Worrell, the Department would no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4791,"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":[129,125],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-barbados","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Procurement-in-handwriting-The-Blue-Diamond-Gallery.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1f7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31525,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/public-procurement-in-the-bahamas-the-e-procurement-supplier-registry\/","url_meta":{"origin":4781,"position":0},"title":"Public procurement in The Bahamas: the e-Procurement Supplier Registry","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"December 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Bahamas One must talk less about transparency but rather strive to be transparent.\u201d In part two of my article\u2019s series, I spoke briefly about the Bahamas government\u2019s e-Procurement Supplier Registry and today I wish to elaborate more on the electronic portal. 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