{"id":5642,"date":"2018-05-21T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2018-05-21T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:30:44","slug":"opposition-welcomes-bill-to-amend-public-procurement-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/opposition-welcomes-bill-to-amend-public-procurement-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition welcomes Bill to amend Public Procurement Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OPPOSITION spokesman on finance Mark Golding has welcomed the Bill to amend the Public Procurement Act, which, he said, will serve to enhance the associated processes involved in the system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support the thrust of this legislation and any attempts to improve it, and we also hope that as it is rolled out, the training to support it will be such that we will see far more efficient execution of the procurement processes in the public sector than have been achieved in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Golding was making his contribution to the debate on the Bill in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation seeks to regulate the procurement of goods, works and services by agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Golding noted that the principal law, the Public Procurement Act, was passed in 2015 to introduce a modern procurement system with clear rules, and the necessary institutional base to ensure fairness, transparency and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/news\/opposition-welcomes-bill-to-amend-public-procurement-act_132934?profile=1470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0\u00a0freestocks.org (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPPOSITION spokesman on finance Mark Golding has welcomed the Bill to amend the Public Procurement Act, which, he said, will serve to enhance the associated processes involved in the system&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3003,"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":[124,73,71,125],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-jamaica","tag-legislation","tag-procurement","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Shelf-of-Legal-Books-freestocks.org-Pexels.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1t0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22447,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/govt-to-amend-procurement-act\/","url_meta":{"origin":5642,"position":0},"title":"Govt To Amend Procurement Act","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"June 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Bahamas ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Michael Halkitis said government is hoping to amend the Public Procurement Act in the upcoming budget period with a view of making it \u201cuser friendly\u201d to ensure better compliance and greater transparency of the country\u2019s procurement process. 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