See, environmentally specific and culturally friendly systems are easy enough to obey, because they’re practical. Unlike those typical “this is how the Babylonian consultant said it should be done” type of guidelines. I find that so unimaginative and lacking independent intelligent judgement. I REPEAT: reasonable rules will reduce excessive bureaucracies that are often in conflict with intended purposes, poorly paginated and inconsistently formatted forms. But that’s because most of them are borrowed and not fully digested yet.
LET ME THREE-PEAT: reasonable rules are less unnerving, hence speed up processes and save cost - you know, economical, effective and efficient if you like. You don’t have to do any resource draining feasibility study, or hold tons of stakeholders, steering and validating committee meetings when all you need is to fix a public toilet in Abuko.
In our part of the world however, the maze of borrowed rules and especially of public procurements are such that you can hardly do anything without breaking a rule - more of a hindrance so to speak. Perhaps why a government agency can buy for 10 million what her private corporate counterpart will get for 2 million, because the latter doesn’t have to follow the fifty-ten step process.
I wish our own procurement authority will read this, because they need to up their game. Sometimes I believe we were in better health when we had the Major and Minor Tender Boards at the Finance Ministry. Today, you want to buy a pack of copier papers for D500, you are caused to fill an average of twenty-ten sheets, including but not limited to a Record of Single-Source Procurement, a Requisition, a Payment Authorisation, a Petty Contract or a Local Purchase Order Form, and you’re also caused to buy from a registered supplier, half of who have their businesses in their briefcases, else you’re said to be non-compliant - sounds like non con-able to me.
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