KABUL - The National Procurement Authority (NPA) has approved 10 contracts worth two billion afghanis, rejected one and asked review of another, President Ashraf Ghani’s office said on Sunday.
A National Procurement Commission meeting, chaired by President Ashraf Ghani, was held Saturday evening at the Presidential Palace here to review important contracts involving big sums of money.
Yama Yari, director-general of NPA, briefed the session on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation between the Authority and the Ministry of Interior’s anti-crime department. He said both sides would work for preventing corruption on projects.
The NPA rejected the proposed contract for the first phase of the 23 kilometres Doshi-Bamyan road for its failure to meet legal requirements. The NPA ordered a re-announcement of bidding.
Meanwhile, the meeting decided on reviewing the procurement project for equipping the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with computers.
While approving the project for the activation of a pre-construction service factory, the participants hailed the initiative of the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and economic counseling by the Presidential Palace with regard to project’s implementation.
The MoUD was tasked with comprehensively monitoring of project implementation. The meeting was also attended by some members of NPA, transparency observers from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), Meshrano Jirga’s economic commission, Wolesi Jirga’s defence panel, anti-corruption parliamentary caucus and the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A) of Resolute Support mission. (Pajhwok)