The United Republic of Tanzania

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REGULATORY AUTHORITY (PPRA)

Frequently Asked Questions

The Act is applicable for the following: All Procuring Entities. Non Governmental Entities for procurement financed from specific public finances, and Public Private Partnership projects at their relevant stages.
According to section 32(2) of PPA 2011, the Authority is mandated to prescribe the procedure to be followed by PEs to form a tender board where its organizational structure is too small to be able to constitute a tender board. PE is required to submit its staffing level to PPRA for proper advice....
YES. Accounting Officer is allowed by Section 40(5) of PPA 2011 to appoint member from out of PE where the required skills or experience are not available within PE or where members are indisposed or have a conflict of interest
A local firm means a firm whose majority share capital (i.e. more than fifty percent) is owned by citizens of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Where the Accounting Officer is not satisfied with the decision of the Tender Board he is supposed to return the decision to the Tender Board for review giving written reasons for the dissatisfaction and where not satisfied with the outcome of the review he may request for an independent review by P...
Bid securing declaration is supposed to be used for all procurement whose value does not exceed the thresholds for exclusive preference and where local firms have been invited. For example, for all procurement for works with values less or equal to Tshs 10 billion; goods with values less or equal to...
Tender security or bid securing declaration shall remain valid for a period of not less than twenty eight days beyond the validity period of the tender, in order to provide procuring entity time to act if security is called for.
In line with Section 65 of PPA 2011 as amended in 2016,the following need to be observed: the accounting officer should determine that it is in the public interest that goods, works or services be procured as a matter of urgency; the conditions relating to procurement limits, methods, tender process...
All procurement undertaken by PEs need to be in their approved Annual Procurement Plans (APP). However, Section 49(3) of PPA 2011 provides that any unplanned procurement shall get prior approval of Accounting Officer before it is procured.
There are different security measures in place to ensure  that  all  data submitted is        secure such as making use of usernames and passwords , setting up different user       levels, roles and privileges ,firewalls etc .In a...
No. PE user can only view and manipulate   data belong to only his/her PE.