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    "id": 523402,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/523402/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogari",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 385,
        "legal_name": "Simon Ogari Arama",
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    "content": "I said that this Clause has to be amended such that we do not give responsibility especially on professional or technical tenders to innocent procurement or accounting officers who do not profess that knowledge. The issue which I want to raise here is on Article 227 of the Constitution. What is required of this Bill is to establish a framework and policies. What I am seeing now is that we are having more clauses which are better of in the regulations or in the tender documents themselves. This is because if you look at Clauses 73 to 88, they are not businesses to be legislated here. This is because every tender or contract is unique and we have to give the procurement officer or entity on the ground a chance to deal with the circumstances within the law that we are creating within the Act and the Constitution. This is because once we start legislating about how tenders should be submitted this will be micro-managing and we will not be giving room for somebody to use their brains and adopt the circumstances or the uniqueness of the tender procedures. I also believe that some information here is not for legislation. I am sorry if I am using some bad language. If you look at the methods of procurement, Clauses 95 to 114, that amounts to something like a textbook. This is because we are being taught about the methods of procurement. Why should we legislate on those when in the actual tender document it is clear? That shall be specified in the tender documents in the particular procurement that we will be doing. Therefore, this information belongs to college. We do The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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