KAMPALA, UGANDA| THE INDEPENDENT | Suppliers of Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) have been briefed on the new URA online bidding systems and the updated Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) Act. This follows numerous supplier concerns regarding previous processes. Kenneth Namanya, URA’s Database Manager informed suppliers that URA …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority PPDA has asked companies awarded contracts to construct seed secondary schools to provide timely accountability. The call is especially directed to schools funded under the Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers Program (UGIFT). Dr. Levi Kabagambe, a Procurement Specialist …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has accused the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority-PPDA of frustrating partnerships between state-owned agencies and private investors. Museveni argues that some PPDA protocols, which sound legally applicable in the course of procuring user items like machinery, are not …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA) tribunal has cancelled the aviation fuel supply contract that Uganda National Airlines had awarded to Vivo Energy, citing procurement irregularities. On November 8, 2022, Uganda Airlines, through a newspaper advertisement, invited sealed bids for the procurement …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) has been selected to host the 14th annual East African Procurement Forum and introduce the East African Business Expo to take place from 23rd to 26th March, 2023 at Kololo Independence grounds in Kampala Uganda. …
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How the president’s approach of allocating favours to individual firms has undermined the development of a robust private sector THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On August 15th, President Yoweri Museveni wrote the prime minister an instruction titled “Support of Local Companies in the Construction Sector”. He said …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal in Kampala has upheld the more than Shillings 90million award given to Mary Pamela Sozi, the former Director of Finance and Administration in the Public Procurement Disposable Act-PPDA in compensation for unlawful termination. The judgment arises from a decision by the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has discovered that procurement regulations in the award of the US$200 million contract for the expansion and upgrading of Entebbe International Airport were flouted. In 2014, Government through Ministry of Works and Transport contracted China …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has questioned the Electoral Commission-EC on the reported breach of procurement procedures in the move to acquire new premises for its headquarters. Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) earmarked the current EC premises at Jinja road for construction of the Jinja-Kampala …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A former procurement officer at the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority-PPDA, Diana Nabbengo Luutu has been set free by the Court of Appeal after quashing her conviction of murdering her husband, Asiimwe Hannington Musasizi. She had been sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment …
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