The Bureau of Public Procurement has called for a review of standard bidding procurement to improve budget implementation and national development.

BPP director-general Mamman Ahmadu made this appeal at a two-day stakeholders workshop organised by the agency in Port Harcourt.

Mr Ahmadu said the stakeholder’s sensitisation workshop on the draft review of standard bidding and contracting documents used in the procurement of goods, works and services would be held in four locations.

“The review workshop takes place in four locations of Lagos, Kano, Rivers and Abuja, starting with South-South and South-East,” he said.

According to him, the workshop will create an opportunity to harvest valuable input from all public procurement stakeholders.

Mr Ahmadu said the aim of developing new procurement documents and revising the existing ones is to address the inadequacies observed in ministries, departments and agencies using the current document.

“The essence is to ensure transparency, openness, accountability and to bring our standard practice to the current trend in ICT and other developments,” he said.

BPP director of regulation database and ICT Aliyu Aliyu said the review would be done from the regulators’ perspective and not be reinvented totally but to get information from various clients who have done it before.

Mr Aliyu said there would be triple addition of more information on the existing standard bidding document to cover some areas that still needed to be covered.

“We should have reference documents that properly address those areas to which we want to contact,” he explained.

(NAN)