Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

• There was no evidence that
competitive quotations, which
were 13% of all procurement,
were received in sealed
envelopes and opened in
public at a specified time.
• There were no records of the
tender opening proceedings.
Tender evaluation and award
thereof was not properly done.
• There were instances where
lowest evaluated bidders were
not awarded tenders without
plausible reasons.
• In other instances, evaluation
committee members visited
bidders during tender
evaluation process.
• No tender award was
advertised during FY 2007/08
contrary to regulation 67 (3) of
G. N. No. 98 and regulation 97
(12) of G.N. No. 97.
• Tender documents were not
professionally kept, making
retrieval of information
unnecessarily long.
• The current organisation
structure doesn’t provide an
environment for the tender
board and the tender board
secretariat (“PMU”) to
discharge their functions
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