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The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services proposed stringent financial capacity vetting against ‘tenderpreneurs’ tendering for projects, saying the absence of stringent vetting often leads to incomplete service delivery. The Ministry’s stance comes following weeks of criticism due to dilapidated infrastructure, non-functional equipment, lack of medicines, and human resource shortage.
The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services proposed stringent financial capacity vetting against ‘tenderpreneurs’ tendering for projects, saying the absence of stringent vetting often leads to incomplete service delivery. The Ministry’s stance comes following weeks of criticism due to dilapidated infrastructure, non-functional equipment, lack of medicines, and human resource shortage.
The Ministry’s office was doing its utmost to address the crisis but faced an upheaval battle of contractors’ poor performance and lack of cash flow and technical capacity. The Ministry has recommended the strengthening of the evaluation criteria to ensure only suppliers with technical and financial capacity are employed. It is further resolved to debar non-performing contractors from being awarded new projects. as well as Implement penalties as per the signed contract.
The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services proposed stringent financial capacity vetting against ‘tenderpreneurs’ tendering for projects, saying the absence of stringent vetting often leads to incomplete service delivery. The Ministry’s stance comes following weeks of criticism due to dilapidated infrastructure, non-functional equipment, lack of medicines, and human resource shortage.
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Careful analysis of lowest bids before they are awarded, and also recommend to the Development Bank of Namibia to restructure the funding system, while further creating a system to trace procurement requests. The ministry faces challenges such as poor performance of contractors due to a lack of cash flow and technical capacity to employ a sufficient workforce and buy sufficient materials to make sufficient progress as well as a lengthy procurement process to advertise, evaluate, and award bids.
