According to the Angolan Public Procurement Newsletter (BICPA) for the first quarter of 2020, sent to Lusa, the sending and publication of the PACs for 2020 result from the obligation to prepare and send them in the light of the annual rules for the execution of the General State Budget (OGE).
BICPA, prepared by the National Public Procurement Service, states that by the end of March only 119 PACs had been published on the Public Procurement Portal, with the prospect of publication of 237 by the middle of this month.
However, despite being an "important management tool, which supports the contracting public entity to define its contracting requirements, where and when to buy", the ministerial body states that it is still waiting for the PACs to be sent from various ministerial departments, "denoting a weak commitment on their part", reads the Angolan Public Procurement Newsletter for the first three months of 2020.
The need to publish the PACs on the Public Procurement Portal, the document notes, is one of the measures included in Angola's Extended Funding Program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which established that "by the end of May 237 budget units should have their PACs published.
According to the National Public Procurement Service, by the legally stipulated deadline of 15 January, only the ministries of Tourism, Telecommunications and Information Technology and the Higher Polytechnic Institute of Kwanza Sul had submitted their PACs.
In its introduction, BICPA "insists" on the need for public contracting entities to publicize their PACs and the opening of public procurement procedures "by the legally prescribed means".
"And opt for open and competitive procedures so that an increasingly transparent and competitive public market can be built in Angola," it recommends.
