The Authority will continue to focus on building a sustainable procurement and Property management system. H.E. Mrs. Meseret Meskele

The Federal Public Procurement and Property Authority is fully digitizing its services to enable its operating system and to achieve the highest value for government money.

In this regard, electronic Government Procurement System is highly productive, and here the Authority is supporting digital economy that our country has started. The Authority has put valued effort to engage all Federal Government Organizations, including higher education institutions to implement e-GP by providing training, support and urgent solutions to the emerging problems.

Today, the Authority discussed with Jean-Benoit Perrot-Minnot, Team Leader, Financial Management Team of the French Development Agency, and his team on the possibility of strengthening e- GP and other operating systems.

Director General of the Authority, H.E. Mrs. Meseret Mesekele, who highlighted the activity, said that the Authority is working towards a vision of becoming one of the leading institutions in Africa by 2030 by strengthening a modern Public Procurement and Property management system, and that it has fully digitized its system to achieve this vision.

H.E. Mrs. Meseret explained that there was a great struggle to bring the electronic government procurement system to its current level, including other operational systems. However now, the system has become effective and the authority shares its experience for many African countries.

She also stated that the Authority will continue strengthening institutional reforms effectively, modernizing service delivery, and carrying out capacity building for the organizations implemented and Regions and City Administration in the future.

Despite this, budget shortages, lack of international institutions for experience sharing, and limited infrastructure have been raised as problems.

Mr. Jean-Benoit Perrot-Minnot, for his part, stated that the institutional reform being carried out by the Authority and the operational systems being implemented will contribute significantly to the digital economy, and expressed his organization’s willingness to provide financial, consulting, and training support.