Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

evaluation committee to the tender board without being
reviewed by Supplies and Logistics Officer.
7.1.5 Appointment and composition of evaluation committees
Public procurement regulation 90 (1) requires a procuring
entity to establish a tender evaluation committee
comprising not less than three and not more than five
members. However, there were cases whereby the
committees comprised more than five members contrary to
the above regulation. Further the evaluation reports were
noted to lack signatures of members of the evaluation
team.
In addition, we observed that recommendations for
appointment of evaluation committee made by
Procurement Management Unit were not approved by Chief
Executive Officers instead they were approved by heads of
directorate such as Director of Human Resources and
Administration contrary to section 37 (2) of the PPA, 2004
7.1.6 Procurement made without competitive bidding
Audit review of the procurement procedures during the
year under review, revealed that procurements were done
without competitive bidding as required by section 59 of
the Public Procurement Act, 2004. The Act requires that a
procuring entity engaging in the procurement of goods,
works or services or disposal shall apply competitive
tendering.
There was no evidence that invitation to quotations were
sent to all short listed suppliers/service providers and it
could not be ascertained whether or not bid periods were
in line with those stipulated under third schedule, part (c)
of G. N. No. 97.
There was no evidence that competitive quotations, which
were 13% of all procurement, were received in sealed
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