The South Sudan Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority (PPDAA) says its board members are currently visiting their counterparts in the East African Community (EAC) to benchmark on their procurement systems. Speaking during a visit to the PPDA Offices in Kampala yesterday, Mr Deng Akuei Kak, the executive director PPDA, said they seek to understand the procurement systems used by their peers before they can join the East African Public Procurement system. “We have come here to meet our counterparts. We came as a board because we are joining the East African Public Procurement System. Uganda has offered us the experience they have so that the delegation gets to know the procurement system in East Africa based on South African law,” he said. Mr Deng explained that when the East African Community member states made the laws, South Sudan was not part of the process but now they have come here to complete the process, study the documents and see how the systems run before they can establish their own. According to Mr Benson Turamye, the executive director of Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority Uganda, they shared with their South Sudan counterparts the procurement reforms that they have implemented since 2003. “South Sudan got independence in 2011 and they established the PPDA Act in 2018.They do not have regulations and structures but they have established an office equivalent to PPDA Uganda; they have 26 staff running the body,” he said. Mr Turamye said it is important...
S. Sudan moves to join EAC public procurement system
Posted on: August 4, 2023
Posted on: August 4, 2023