146 companies face exclusion from public procurement

About 146 companies face exclusion from public procurement since they have not been able completed their project (throughout the national territory) between 2013 and 2014.

These include the construction of classrooms, health centres or other public buildings, construction sites, development or rehabilitation of rural roads, contracts for the supply of consumables, moving devices or other miscellaneous equipment.

"This is serious breaches,” according to Abba Sadou, Minister delegate at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement (Minmap).

‘’For a sustainable and productive clean-up of the sector whose contribution to growth is still to be reaped,’’ Minmap has just published the list of 146 companies incumbent of the public markets mentioned, indicating that "measures are being considered, to exclude these enterprises which has failed to execute their task for a period of two years.

Under the terms of his release, Minister Abba Sadou blamed these companies for ‘’rates of consumption of deadlines which range beyond 500%; projects completely stopped; purely abandoned sites and markets never having gone through commencement of implementation." Also, Minmap gave them until October 20 to justify themselves on these shortcomings, failure to which they will be the sanctioned for two years of barring.

At the moment, several “responses rights’’ have already been received at the branch level of infrastructure projects. According to the DG, Bruno Ndongo Zinga, "some speak of unavailability of credit while others stated that construction sites were undercharged and unavailable. ''

"In short, those summoned indexed bad feasibility studies and therefore, the immaturity of the projects in question. All these requests will be handled case by case, and the responsibilities would be incurred thereafter.”