Fraudulent contractors to face 10-yr ban 'BPP

THE Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has said contractors who make false claims that mislead ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government into taking decisions that favour them risk a 10-year ban and prosecution.The Director-General of the bureau, Mr Emeka Ezeh, gave the warning in Abuja, on Monday, at the presentation of the national database for the registration, categorisation and classification of federal contractors, consultants and service providers' module.The BPP boss also said any contractors that registered more than one company without disclosing them, making false claims about job executed, among others, in a bid to gain undue advantage in the award of contract by MDAs would be banned from doing business in Nigeria for 10 years.The BPP boss, highlighting the challenges facing the bureau, said a lot of people made false claims, to mislead MDAs in giving them jobs they could not handle, stressing that at the end of the day, there were problems of delay in execution, partial completion and even non-completion.On the national database, Ezeh said the centralised database and categorisation of contractors and service providers doing business with the Federal Government was anticipated to enhance efficiency and cost in public procurement, improve budget implementation and increase professionalism, besides initiating transparency in the public procurement process.He said with the classification of contractors and consultants, there would be increased discipline in the federal procurement processes, adding that only capable and competent contractors and service providers would be considered for deserving jobs.
Click here to read full news..