Tendering to inefficiency

The Government’s border taxation police, Customs and Excise, has a database of all goods, prices of all importers. The Ministry of Finance has access to this data.

The Government’s internal tax police, the Ministry of Finance, which has oversight of VAT, has a database of all wholesale and retail prices and names of businesses to which they apply.

Furthermore, the Government has a database of businesses which accept government invoices. So fluid purchasing can be done if this list was shared with the public sector. Therefore, the Government means to impede State spending through asking government schools to provide information already in its hands.

The Government also means to discourage public sector spending with the imposition of multiple tenders, imposing tedious conditions to get materials and services to supply State services.

B JOSEPH via email