African Regional Development Project follows the central purchase policy to save effort and money and controls the process of expenditure and purchase. Therefore, the Procurement Department has been established as a part of Logistics Directorate to implement the central purchase policy. Briefly, Procurement Department provides all requirements and services to the departments and divisions of the African Regional Development Project either from local or foreign markets. The Procurement Department is divided into four sections-

• Tenders and Auctions Section
• Local Purchase Section
• Foreign Purchase Section
• Contracts Section

Core Objectives of the ARDP

• Economic Efficiency
• Competition - Providing level playing ground for all strata of bidders
• Value for money
• Tranparency

Core Functions of the ARDP

• Supervise the implementation of established procurement policies;
• Monitor the prices of tendered items and keep a national database of standard prices;
• Publish the details of major contracts in the procurement journ
• Publish paper and electronic editions of the procurement journal and maintain an archival system for the procurement journal;
• Maintain a national database of the particulars and classification and categorisation of federal contractors and service providers;
• Collate and maintain in an archival system, all federal procurement plans and information;
• Undertake procurement research and surveys;
• Organise training and development programmes for procurement professionals;
• Periodically review the socio-economic effect of the policies on procurement and advise the Council accordingly;
• Prepare and update standard bidding and contract documents;
• Prevent fraudulent and unfair procurement and where necessary apply administrative sanctions;
• Review the procurement and award of contract procedures of every entity to which the procurement act applies;