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| Ashok Chawla Chairman, CCI [FILE PHOTO] |
New Delhi: The Indian Financial Advisors and key officers handling the
procurement aspects in the government have been advised to encourage
competitive practices in public procurement and framing competitive coherent
govt. policies. Inaugurating a Conference on “Curbing Deficit through Effective
Competition in Public Procurement” in the New Delhi today, Ashok Chawla,
Chairman of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) emphasised about the
competitive imperatives required in the govt. policies in general. He also gave
suggestions to introduce and increase competition and transparency in the
procurement practices that could also help in reducing fiscal and revenue
deficit of the government.
The Conference was
attended by more than 100 representatives from more than 30 ministries/
departments of the Central Government. Notably, CCI has already organised
workshop with Nodal Officers of Central Ministries/ Departments on Competition
Coherent Government Policies earlier this year.
Ashok Chawla asked the procurement agencies to be alive to
market information and optimise and maximise the bidders to ensure healthy
competition. He also advised the procurement officers to be well aware of the
technical specifications, tender process and ensure evaluation of the bidding
process so as to have a competition compliant public procurement.