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The Prime Minister, Head of Government, His Excellency Philemon YANG, this Thursday 1 March 2018 chaired this months Cabinet Meeting at 3:00 p.m. at the Prime Ministers Office. Apart from his close aides, the meeting was attended by the Vice-Prime Minister, Ministers of State, Ministers, Ministers Delegate and Secretaries of State. Two items featured on the agenda namely: 1. Statement by the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge,, of Public Contracts on stakes and prospects of dematerializing public procurement procedures; 2. Statement by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development on progress of the low-cost houses building programme and related public facilities under the three-year emergency plan to accelerate economic growth; Before giving the floor to the ministers concerned for their statements, the Prime Minister emphasized the instructions of the President of the Republic who ordered that missions abroad for members of Government and State agents be reduced to the absolute minimum, just as the sizes of the delegations should. He said that journeys by air for Board Chairs, Administrators, Director Generals and the Deputy Directors General of companies and public establishments, shall be in business class and shall be subject to the prior authorization of the technical supervisory ministers and the Head of Government. Concerning State agents, the Prime Minister recalled that their travels abroad on official missions shall be in economy class and those who were exceptionally entitled to first class shall now travel in business class. The Prime Minister instructed ministers and the Minister of Finance in particular to ensure the strict compliance of travel classes by State agents while waiting for the ongoing amendment of the decree thereto related. Following the introductory statement of the Head of Government, the Minister of Public Contracts presented the stakes of the project to dematerialize public procurement procedures. This project, also called e-procurement, is articulated in 3 phases which are part of a wide ranging programme to modernize the Cameroonian public procurement system, in order to make it more efficient in terms of speed, transparency and easing procedures. Referring to the actions carried out with the support of the Korean cooperation under the first phase of the project, the Minister said that the platform to dematerialise documents used in bidding, called Cameroon on fine e-procurement system (COLEPS) was operational. Through this platform, 1898 contracts were programmed in 2017 and 177 tenders. |
