National Project Implementation Plan - NVBDCP

(commercial or UN agency acting as procurement agent) will follow the World
Bank Guidelines dated May 2004 and other procurement arrangements agreed
for the project. The Procurement Support Agencies (PSA) are not to be used at
any level until otherwise agreed by the World Bank. The procurement of
services (both consultancy and non-consultancy) will also be handled by the
Procurement Agent till the implementing agencies develop their in-house
capacity. However, in procurement of services the role of the Procurement
Agent will be limited up to finalizing the contract award recommendations,
while the contract shall be signed and managed by NVBDCP. NVBDCP will
directly handle the low value procurement below NCB threshold.
12.3.6 Procurement MIS
Until such time the computerized MIS system (in which contract database
would be a module) becomes operational, the manual system of collecting
contract data would be put in place. The format and frequency for collecting
the contract data would be agreed with the World Bank based on the post
review plans.
12.3.7 Borrower’s Procurement Audit
Following procurement audit will be conducted by the NVBDCP/MOHFW for the
project:
Procurement Audit by GOI: NVBDCP/MOHFW will hire an independent
agency for undertaking yearly post review of the contracts awarded by the
program implementing agencies at all levels to cover a minimum of 10% of
the contracts issued during the year. The TOR for this agency shall be
shared with the World Bank for No Objection. The report submitted by the
consultant would be part of the consolWorld Bank ted audit reports to be
submitted to the World Bank.
CAG Audit: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India conduct the
procurement audit (as part of the financial audit) of MOHFW. In case there
is any procurement related observation made by CAG in its audit report, the
same shall be shared with the World Bank along with the comments of
MOHFW.
12.3.8 Procurement Staff
With most of the procurement to be handled by the procurement agent, the
role of NVBDCP Directorate would be to directly handle low value procurement
(below NCB threshold), coordinate with the procurement agent, monitoring the
stock position and quality of supplies; development of specifications, supply
chain management, quality management, procurement planning,
implementation of risk mitigation plan and service procurement (as and when
capacity is built up for this), monitoring the decentralized procurement (as and
when allowed) etc. For playing this role effectively the directorate of NVBDCP
has recruited one procurement consultant in 2007 under retroactive financing
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