Osvaldo Ngoloimwe was responding to questions posed by deputies during a training session initiated at the National Assembly on Public Accounts, promoted by the Secretariat of the Public Accounts Committee of Southern African Countries until Thursday.
Deputy Augusto Samuel, from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), questioned "about the preference of the President of the Republic in favoring direct agreement in the contracting of certain companies, which is bringing the monopoly", saying "a lot from Omatapalo and Carrinho".
Deputy Sivestre Samy, from UNITA, stressed: "What happens today, what is the exception becomes the rule, in most contracts there is more talk of simplified hiring and emergency hiring, in a country where we have problems of transparency".
The Deputy Director-General of the SNCP underlined that on this subject "a lot of noise is already emerging" that needs to be clarified, advancing as one of the hypotheses to overcome this situation the revision of the Public Contracts Law.
"We have now carried out work, in which 48 percent of the orders from the President of the Republic are based on external financing, as it is export credit, the financing entity conditions that it has to be that specific company", said Osvaldo Ngoloimwe.
According to the SNCP leader, the simplified contracting procedure "is closed, it is non-competitive, because only one economic operator is invited", in obedience to the law.
Osvaldo Ngoloimwe justifies the procedure by citing the Public Contracts Law, pointing out a revision of the legal diploma as solutions if one wants to "ban the issue of simplified contracting".
"We eliminated this paragraph, we solved the problem at the base, or else the fundamentals that have been applied by the President of the Republic have legal dignity and this issue has been much discussed", stressed Osvaldo Ngoloimwe.
According to the official, the technical group for operationalizing local content at the level of the Public Investment Program carried out a study with the National Institute for Support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Inapem) noting that Angola has more than 84,000 companies, of which 84 percent are micro, small and medium-sized companies.
"Out of five micro, small companies, three die at birth due to lack of business opportunities. What has to be done is to discuss financing mechanisms and give the possibility of subcontracting micro, small and medium-sized Angolan companies, that would be a mechanism also to offer business opportunities", he pointed out.
