Federal Ministry of Transportation/
Marine & Blue Economy

Functions:

1. Procurement planning for the ministry:

i. Serves as Secretariat to Procurement Planning Committee (PPC);

ii. Carries out Needs Identification, Assessment and Evaluation;

iii. Categorizes the needs into Goods, Works and Services;

iv. Conducts Market and Statistical Surveys on the needs;

v. Aggregates the needs where possible for economy of scale;

vi. Integrates the expenditure for the needs into the budget; and

vii. Prescribes the Procurement method(s) to be adopted.

2. Advertisement(s):

i. Prepares solicitation documents for publication in Federal Tenders;

ii. Journal and two National dailies including International; and

iii. Journal(s) where applicable and in the Ministry’s website.

3. Bidding:

i. Issuance of standard Bidding Documents to interested contractors, suppliers and consultants;

ii. Collection of completed Bidding Documents from contractors, suppliers and consultants; and

iii. Conduction of Public Bid Opening after closure of bid collection.

4. Bid Evaluation:

i. Constitution of Bid Evaluation Committee;

ii. Carrying out of Technical and Financial Bid Evaluation; and

iii. Submission of Bid Evaluation Report.

5. Approval(s):

i. Serves as secretariat to the Ministerial Tenders Board (MTB);

ii. Ensure appropriate presentation of Memoranda to approving authorities (Accounting Officer, Tenders Board or Federal Executive Council);

iii. Process Certificate of “No Objection” for contract approvals.

6. Award(s):

i. Issuance of Letters of Contract Awards.

7. Execution/Implementation

i. Ensure implementation, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation in Terms of the contracts;

ii. Issue relevant certificates of completion;

iii. Recommend /request for payment; and

iv. Responds to compliant in accordance with the proceeding set in PPA, 2007.

8. Supervisory Role:

i. Liaises with the Ministry’s Parastatals and Agencies on Procurement matters;

ii. Liaises with relevant bodies or Institutions for effective performance of its functions;

iii. Undertake supervision of MTB and FEC approved projects implementation in the Ministry, Parastatals and Agencies.