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| ITA hails transparent, healthy tending system for procurement of medicines | | ‘Vested interests lobbying to thwart, scuttle this judicious process’ | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 24
While appreciating the good work done by the Provincial Purchase Committee (PPC), Jammu for effecting purchases and procurement of medicines through healthy competition and in a transparent tendering process, the Institutional Traders Association (ITA), an institutional wing of Jammu and Kashmir Pharma Association, has said that some non- approved contractors are lobbying hard to thwart the judicious tendering process and are hell bent to scuttle this healthy competition.
In a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Association said that these very elements are trying to put some pressure on the Health Minister and some officials to stop this transparent system by forcing the department to wind up the PPC and make purchases from other/old rate contracts on much higher rates.
The Association places on record its appreciation for the good work done by the PCC Jammu which was the outcome of a bold and daring decision under the guidance of Secretary Health and Medical Education K B Jandial after binding the Central Purchase Committee and giving a new direction to affect the purchases and procurement by means of healthy competition through proper transparent tendering process, the memorandum said.
The Association further said that by this healthy decision, the PCC Jammu has floated 18 tenders in a record time of two to three months, of these some have been finalized while others are in the pipeline. ‘It has exhibited the will of your government to ensure the transparency in process of effecting purchases and procurement of various life saving drugs, machinery, equipments and other hospital consumables’, the memorandum adds.
While extending its unconditional support to the un-biased and competitive working, the Association has urged the Chief Minister to intervene personally so that this tender process and healthy competition goes on in a smooth manner and procurements made in a competitive manner. |
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