‘Procurement purgatory’: A legal framework in urgent need of reform: The treasury and parliament must urgently revise and table the draft public procurement bill, as a crucial step in tackling South Africa’s procurement crisis
READ MORE:A chilling perspective on the harmful effects of ineffective procurement processes on learners is evident in the education sector. Thousands of schools still lack the essential resources they need to provide basic education, while the money meant to provide these resources is often wasted due to poor public procurement.
Although this is not a problem per se as each department or entity is, theoretically, best equipped to determine and implement its own procurement processes, this creates an “over-decentralisation” of procurement processes that creates numerous problems. to happen if noncompliance is detected, the accounting authority, as administrative head of the department, is also charged withIt is not clear, from a procurement-law perspective, how consequences will be enforced if accounting authorities themselves are involved in the noncompliance.
A wide range of stakeholders, ranging from NGOs and research institutions to corporate entities, have identified inadequacies in the bill, including: A failure to provide robust, comprehensive, and protective provisions for public participation, oversight, transparency and accountability;
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