Achievements

The Oyo State Bureau of Public Procurement has undertaken several activities and reforms with the goal of transforming public procurement in the state, improving efficiency and accelerating delivery, including:

• Cost savings and value for money
  • Our drive to achieve value for money in public procurement has generated total cost savings of circa N8 billion across all the MDAs in Oyo State.
  • Reducing delays by ensuring that time-bound projects (with dependencies such as seasonal changes) involve the Bureau from the planning stage and such MDAs receive necessary guidance to ensure seamless execution within the time constraint.
  • Institution of Procurement Plans which align with the budget in order to ensure proper communication among key stakeholders, economic justification and social benefit of procurement requests.
  • Ensuring that proper tracking of budgetary allocations and spending to ascertain that procurement requests are supported by the available balances.

• Increased transparency
  • Increased transparency of contracting opportunities by ensuring necessary information regarding evaluation and selection criteria are well advertised by respective procuring entities.
  • Visibility for SMEs to the supply chain and sub-contracting opportunities (where acceptable) through improved contract advertisement on Newspapers and other notices.
• Optimizing the procurement process
  • Improving the efficiency of the procurement process through training and development of institutional capacity and selection of procurement champions in each MDA.
  • Turn-around time of 24-48 hours for procurement requests from MDAs has now been internally adopted at the Bureau for requisitions with clear economic justification and requisite approvals.
  • The training of selected staff of each MDA as procurement champions helps in ensuring seamless reviews where necessary.
  • Revision of thresholds for award of contract in order to facilitate efficiency, optimize the capacity of awarding authorities and the use public resources.

• Oyo BPP Portal which depicts our drive to improve transparency and ease of doing business by:
  • Implementation of online vendor registration and e-procurement in the state.
  • Improving Oyo State’s performance on the ease of doing business by the automation of the process of registration of contractors, ensuring that registration can be done at the Bureau’s one-stop-shop portal from anywhere and at any time.
  • E-procurement platform providing electronic processing of bids and award and management of all contracts awarded by the state.
• Ease of doing business
  • Our staff are dedicated to providing information and other assistance necessary for external stakeholders to navigate the requirements of doing business with Oyo State.
  • Expansion of the registration categories of contractors and vendors to encourage SMEs to participate in public procurement and to engender transparency, competition and fairness.
  • Review of registration fees to provide support to businesses with a cheaper and simpler route to public sector contracts, increasing public participation in public procurement processes as well as boosting the revenue generated through vendor registration.
  • Improving Oyo State’s performance on the ease of doing business by the automation of the process of registration of contractors, ensuring that registration can be done at the Bureau’s one-stop-shop portal from anywhere and at any time.