Koica presented the e-Procurement System to users in Doula recently.

To stamp out corruption and enhance transparency, improve the efficiency of public procurement, reinforce national competition and upgrade the Ministry of Public Contract’s status through the digitalisation of administrative management, are some of the benefits the Cameroon government and public contract users will enjoy using the e-procurement system. Using the e-procurement system in order words signifies a drift from paperwork to a click in the digital world for a contract to be awarded. The e-procurement system consists of e-bidding system, supplier performance management system and statistic management system among others.

Around to edify Douala users during the workshop to present the new electronic system was KOICA’s (Korean International Cooperation Agency) Resident Representative, Kim Tae Young, who expressed his country’s commitment to share experience with Cameroon. “Korea has one of the most comprehensive and highly performant e-procurement systems in the world and we are strongly committed to share the rich experience with our partner country,” he declared. Since public service has a great influence on the country’s competitive power, Kim Tae Young said the system will facilitate public administrations, private companies and service providers to carry out public contract related activities online which will as well contribute to the country’s emergence drive by 2035.

Fru Jonathan, who represented the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Public Contract, intimated that the project is worthwhile. He mentioned that since there will be no direct contact between businessmen and workers in the office, corruption will make way for transparency to reign. The project worth 1,700,000 USD (approximately FCFA 974 million) initiated in 2013 as a grant from the Korean Government is spearheaded by the Koica in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Contract and the Project Management Consultant (Soft I Tech).