PPADB consults with security companies

TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent | Friday February 22, 2008 00:00

A similar workshop focusing on information sharing between security guard service companies and 'the PPADB regarding the operations, processes and procedures as set out in the PPADB Act and Regulations' was held last September.

It was also aimed at learning from the security service companies the challenges and impediments they encounter from time to time in the procurement process. Officially at the workshop, PPADB Executive Chairman Armando Lionjanga said his organisation is mandated by the Act to maintain an up-to-date register of contractors in works, supplies and services, 'or any combination thereof'. Lionjanga said the law requires security companies intending to bid for government jobs to be registered with and graded by the PPADB. He said such grading is already in place at the PPADB for other sectors, especially in the works category 'for both construction and construction-related consultancy services.'

However, the PPADB chief assured the security companies that their comments will be taken to the Board for a decision 'on how the security guard services sector may be included in the Register of Contracts, together with the grading and clarification criteria'.

'This proposal is merely an enabling framework within which to work as it merely provides broad parameters to guide discussions and should in no way be perceived to represent any final decision adopted by the PPADB,' Lionjanga said.

He encouraged the security companies to acquaint themselves with the requirements of the PPAD Act of 2001, the secondary legislation encapsulated in the PPAD Regulations of 2006, 'and the Code of Conduct for contractors registered with the PPADB, as well as all other legal instruments on which the operations and procedures of the PPADB are premised'.

Lionjanga requested them to continue in their fruitful relationship with the PPADB, which enables it to achieve its new strategic vision of becoming 'the centre of excellence for public procurement and asset disposal by 2018''.