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The Public Procurement Authority (PPA) has warned the public about the operations of some unscrupulous persons who operate under the guise of the Tender Board and claim to be operatives from the Office of the President.
According to the authority, these people inform their victims that their team has been set up by the Government of Ghana to provide offsite procurement outsourcing solutions, for which reason they award contracts on behalf of the Government of Ghana.
In a press release issued recently, the PPA noted: “We are by this notice alerting you of their dealings and advising that no purported contract awards from such organizations should be entertained. Please be advised that contracts in Ghana are awarded only after an exhaustive tendering process in which the awardees are expected to have participated.
Such Tender notices are also put out by the individual entities and not a Central Agency on behalf of Ghana Government.”
It therefore urged members of the public to be wary of such scams and disregard any correspondence ostensible coming from the above-listed institutions.
“The PPA is a creation of the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663) mandated to regulate, assess and ensure full compliance by entities to all the provisions of the Act. It does not undertake procurement on behalf of entities but rather seeks to build their capacities to enable effective implementation of the Act,” it emphasized.
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