Public procurement remediation effort in the DRC
The Congolese state wants to clean up the public procurement sector. The law on public finances 2018 provides for an interministerial Finance – Budget order setting the duty rate on public procurement files awarded through the private agreement procedure.
The staff of the Regulatory Authority for Public Procurement (ARMP) was rather surprised by a decree of the Prime Minister, Bruno Tshibala, charging royalties in public markets. According to the explanations of the Chairman of the Board, Claudian Mulimilwa, this decree has the merit of pushing the ARMP to initiate reforms related to the regulation of public procurement that take 60% of the state budget … more to read …
