{"id":21881,"date":"2024-09-02T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2024-09-02T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:57:53","slug":"government-enhances-procurement-system-with-region-2-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-enhances-procurement-system-with-region-2-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Enhances Procurement System with Region 2 Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Samuel Gillis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTA) recently conducted a training session for private sector representatives in Region 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, who attended the event, emphasized the government&#8217;s commitment to improving the nation\u2019s procurement system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the training, Dr. Singh highlighted ongoing efforts to ensure good governance, accountability, and transparency in project selection, awarding, and execution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed the importance of a robust procurement process to encourage investment and expansion in the region while maintaining strict adherence to procurement rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Singh reflected on past challenges, noting that the introduction of the Procurement Act under the leadership of then-President Bharrat Jagdeo marked a significant step towards a more transparent system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He underscored that the current administration is focused on reinforcing the legal framework governing public procurement, following a period when previous compliance measures were weakened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session also covered legal requirements for bidding and procurement, aiming to ensure that tendering authorities adhere to the Procurement Act and its regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Gillis The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTA) recently conducted a training session for private sector representatives in Region 2. Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, who attended&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21883,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions\/21883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}