Title: Evaluation of procurement process in universal basic education board in Nigeria
Abstract: Before the year 2007, Nigerian government has been managing unprofitable contractual
situations, most of which lacked the needed value for money. Some of which also were negative
due to the very little monitoring habit that coursed general project abandonment for which in a
general view those projects had suffered a great setback in terms of quality and sustainability.
Furthermore, the government had made series of efforts trying to subdue these impending
problems during which ample consultations were made; many programmes were designed in the
bid to stop the menace. However it was in the course of this that in the year 2007 the government
came up with an agency that was shouldered with responsibility of checkmating these issues to
appropriately monitor the quality of jobs being done and making sure that such works were
actually captured in the years budget and therefore executing them accordingly. The government
witnessed a tremendous achievement with this effort and thereby felt the need to improve on it
and then transformed it into a well-organized outfit with autonomous control over all MDAs in
the case of contract execution. This giant step has helped the Universal Basic Education Board to
also have the long needed control over their numerous contracts across the country. It brought a
great sanity into their ways of engagement concerning every contract process putting in mind the
now introduced procurement law. The Universal Basic Education Board has therefore adopted
all necessary medium in their ways of conducting all contract proceedings adhering with the
procurement law put in place. The daring need therefore to completely abolish all past errors
brought the need to adopt and practice the present procurement processes. Therefore the extent
of achievements of these processes needed to be abreast which in turn brought the need for the
procurement process of the Universal Basic Education Board. It is very important that all parties
must be satisfied with the quality of the project as well as timely payment by the client if
satisfied for the overall performance. It is recommended that the pre-qualification process should be supported by laws which will guide against the people that might try to hijack the process.
The whole process should be overhaul to avoid those who will try to use power in trying force
professionals or official assign in carrying out the pre-qualification task.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-12-30
Language: en
Type: article
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