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Contracting public entities should adopt the Electronic Public Procurement tender mechanism and the statistical disclosure of its procedures, as part of transparency and governance, recommended this Friday the Secretary of State for Budget and Public Investment, Juciene de Sousa.

Of the 125 tender procedures carried out by the National Service for Public Procurement (SNCP) over the last five years, only 2.5 percent were accordingly with Electronic Public Procurement.

According to the Secretary of State, the 125 procedures generated 197 contracts signed with Micro, Small and Medium-sized Companies, in a business volume of more than 367 billion Kwanzas.

“The challenge goes to contracting public entities to adhere to Electronic Public Procurement, in addition to their duty of cooperation with the National Public Procurement Service in the field of transparency and adequate statistical disclosure of their procedures”, said the official.

In the view of the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, it is necessary to make public procurement a privileged instrument for boosting the interest of the community, making the citizens’ needs, their real aspirations, always underlying any public contract.

During a seminar on the National Week of Public Procurement, which ended Friday, Juciene de Sousa said that contracting entities should make public spending increasingly efficient, with emphasis on mechanisms to combat corruption, which is a permanent threat.

“The entities would be creating conditions for a better business environment and promoting economic diversification, making hiring a true instrument of opportunities for economic operators”, she considered.

As for the main objectives of the Public Contracting Week, the Secretary of State for the Budget and Public Investment said that it aims to stimulate the debate around the continuous improvement of the quality of public contracts.

Juciane de Sousa stressed that the Public Contracts Law intends to prioritize national production, allowing Public Contracting Entities to establish a margin of preference for the proposed prices, for competitors that are Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

This margin of preference, according to her, must be explained, when defining the award criteria, in the tender programme or in the letter of invitation to submit a proposal.

“However, notwithstanding the actions taken to publicize the National Service for Public Procurement, the adherence of Public Contracting Entities to Electronic Procurement is still inexpressive – both in terms of the number of procedures and the volume of purchases. We may be talking about only 2.5% of the total number of procedures”, she noted.

A cooperation protocol was signed between the SNCP and the Angolan Association of Designers and Consultants.

Among the themes of the seminar, there was the Quality of the public investment project for an excellent contract, the State of the art and the Impact of works contracts at local level

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

National Assembly (NA) will discuss and vote for Draft Law on the Statute of the Former Presidents of the Republic on June 22, the Parliament Bureau’s first secretary Manuel Lopes Dembo announced Friday in Luanda.

Manuel Dembo made the announcement at the end of the Conference of the leaders of the Parliamentary Groups, which aimed to set the agenda of the 7th Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the National Assembly.

The legislative initiative of the proposal under consideration aims to adjust the rights, duties and immunities of former Presidents and their singular auxiliary body in the exercise of Executive Power.

The 7th Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the 5th Legislature will also hold the final overall vote for the Draft Law on Labour Procedure Code and for the three diplomas that authorise the President of the Republic, as Head of the Government, to legislate on the amendment of the Fiscal Regime of the Concession of Blocks 30, 44 and 45.

The Parliament will also vote, in generality, for the Proposed Amendments to the Laws on the Statute of Journalists and on the Organic Law of the Media Regulatory Authority as well as for two draft resolutions on the requests for authorisation for the double adoption, international, of minors Kiary André and Eduardo Suculenta

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Angola Press Agency (ANGOP) and Brazilian Communication Company (EBC) have expressed interest in establishing a partnership in the field of exchange of information and training of staff.

The intention was expressed by the head of Assistant to the Presidency Office of EBC, Ricardo Taffner, during his visit to ANGOP on Friday in Luanda.

The visit is meant to learn of the work of this state-run media outlet (ANGOP) and exploring possible areas of contact, as the previous cooperation that existed in the past had been interrupted due to several factors.

He expressed his company’s available to resume the partnership with Angolan media house in order to broaden its coverage base.

In his turn, the executive director for the Multimedia of ANGOP, Emanuel Catumbela, expressed the desire of the ANGOP to establish a partnership in the field of training of staff, to increase its communication strategy via multimedia.

The EBC is a federal public company with a media conglomerate. It was created in

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)