Efficient contract management is vital
The National, Thursday 18th April 2013
THE government’s push for service delivery will
not achieve its objective without efficient contract management.
From what I can see, 99% of goods and services delivered to government agencies are in one way or another through contract arrangement.
Whether formal or informal, written or verbal, there is an agreement to provide goods and services.
Provincial supply and tenders boards and the CSTB may have the processes and procedures, but from the many failed projects costing the nation millions of kina, it is evi-dent they are not effective.
Some of the causes include bribery and bias in the award of contracts.
If PNG were to experience physical transformation, we need honest and God-fearing people to occupy key government positions.
It is not the processes and procedures that are failing us.
It is the people in positions of trust who fail us.
This chronic problem
is happening in front of our noses and we keep on ignoring it.
We should start blowing whistles for the good of our people and children.
Remember, ignorance is our worst enemy right now.
Tobias I Joseph
Goroka