Recommendations have been made to fill the top three positions of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), Chairperson of the commission Carol Corbin has disclosed.
The posts are Chief Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Services and Head of Operations, which were advertised.
“We have interviewed and we have made our recommendations and would submit them to Parliament and it would be up to Parliament,” Corbin said yesterday when contacted by Stabroek News on the issue. Corbin said the PPC members would have shortlisted the individuals, conducted interviews and then recommended the persons they believe to be best suited for the positions.
More than 13 years after Guyana’s Constitu-tion was amended to provide for the PPC and after much haggling between the PPP/Civic, when it was in government and the current APNU+AFC administration, the oversight body was established in October last year.
Former labour minister Nanda Kishore Gopaul is the PPC’s vice-chairman and the other three members are attorney Emily Dodson, accountant Sukrishnalall Pasha and educator Ivor English.
Among the PPC’s key functions, according to the Procurement Act, are to “Monitor and review the functioning of all procurement systems to ensure that they are in accordance with the law and such policy guidelines as may be determined by the National Assembly; promote awareness of the rules, procedures and special requirements of the procurement process among suppliers, constructors and public bodies; safeguard the national interest in public procurement matters, having due regard to any international obligations; monitor the performance of procurement bodies with respect to adherence to regulations and efficiency in procuring goods and services and execution of works; approve of procedures for public procurement, disseminate rules and procedures for public procurement and recommend modifications thereto to the public procurement entities.”
