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Botswana Public Procurement

The Public Procurement in Botswana is supervised and regulated by The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB), which was established as a parastatal entity in July  2002 following the promulgation of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal, Cap 42:08 of 2001.

The role of PPADB is to adjudicate and award tenders for Central Government. PPADB is also responsible for contractor registration and discipline, issuing of standardized bidding documents, vetting of tender documents prior to issue, capacity building, compliance monitoring and providing overall advi​ce on public procurement and assets disposal in order to improve efficiency.

In Botswana, procurement by following ministries and organizations under them, is in the ambit of PPADB:

• Attorney Generals Chambers (AGC)
• Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security
• Ministry of Basic Education
• Ministry of Defence Justice and Security
• Ministry of Employment, Labour Productivity and Skills Development
• Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism
• Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED)
• Ministry of Health and Wellness
• Ministry of Health and Wellness (Central Medical Stores)
• Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing Development
• Ministry of International Affairs and Cooperation
• Ministry of Investment Trade and Industry
• Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services
• Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
• Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security
• Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender
• Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration
• Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology
• Ministry of transport and Communications
• Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development

In order to bring efficiency and transparency in the Public procurement function, PPADB in 2013 had launched the Integrated Procurement Management System (IPMS).

The IPMS online tender platform/ E-Bidding is meant to assist and facilitate public procurement in an effective and efficient manner. With the new system, suppliers who intend to supply to the Government of Botswana ministries and other entities, can receive tenders notification through email, download the tender document and submit their response online.

Public Procurement in any country can be divided in to 3 major categories and accordingly in Botswana also, TendersOnTime covers all 3 types of procurement categories like:

• Botswana Goods and Supply Tenders
• Botswana Services Tenders
• Botswana Works Tenders

Botswana has taken major strides in bringing transparency and efficiency in Public Procurement function. To know more about how Botswana is performing on various parameters related with Public Procurement like:   

• Needs assessment, call for tender, and bid preparation score
• Bid submission score
• Bid opening, evaluation and award score
• Content and management of procurement contract score
• Performance guarantee score Payment of suppliers score

Please read The World Bank Report on: Benchmarking-Public-Procurement-2017

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Botswana Infrastructure Projects Financing and Execution:

In order to meet the ever-growing requirement of infrastructure and utilities, the government of Botswana creates new assets, acting as the owner of the project. All these projects are procured through various mode. TendersOnTime covers all such types of procurement, and some of them are:

• Botswana EPC Projects and Tenders- Engineering, Procurement, and Construction
• Botswana EPCI Projects and Tenders - Engineering Procurement Construction and Installation
• Botswana LSTK Projects and Tenders - Lump Sum Turn Key
• Botswana FEED Package - Front End Engineering Design
• Botswana EPCM Projects and Tenders - Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management
• EPIC Projects and Tenders - Engineering Procurement Installation Commissioning
• PMC Projects and Tenders - Project Management Consultant
• Botswana Infrastructure Tenders
• Botswana SME Tenders
• Botswana Public Works Tenders and Contracts

Like any other country, Botswana also strive to provide best in class infrastructure facilities and utilities to its citizens. Since, infrastructure projects are typically capital intensive, conventional form of financing like budgetary allocation by Botswana government cannot meet this requirement. The most obvious option to create the infrastructure at fast pace is to involve the Private Sector through PPP (Public Private Partnership). There are various modes of engagement between the private sector and the government of Botswana. TendersOnTime covers all types of PPP models in Botswana. Some of these models are:

• Botswana Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) Projects
• Botswana Build-Own-Operate (BOO) Projects
• Botswana Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) Projects
• Botswana Build-Operate-Lease-Transfer (BOLT) Projects
• Botswana Lease-Develop-Operate (LDO) Projects
• Botswana Rehabilitate-Operate-Transfer (ROT) Projects
• Botswana Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) Projects

In order to assess Government Capability to Prepare, Procure and Manage projects on PPP basis, The World Bank has prepared a benchmarking report in 2017 and have evaluated various countries on the basis of below parameters:

• Preparation of PPPs
• Procurement of PPPs
• Unsolicited Proposals
• PPP Contract Management

To know how Botswana performs on these parameters please view the full report: Benchmarking Public-Private Partnerships Procurement

Information on Funded Tenders and Projects in Botswana:

Multilateral development banks or Multilateral Funding Agencies plays an important role in nation building by providing loans and grants at a concessional rate to developing countries. Apart from covering Botswana Government Business Opportunities, TendersOnTime covers all major active funding agencies in Botswana like: Botswana Bi-Lateral Funding Agency Tenders and Botswana Multilateral Funding Agency Tenders.

All major funding agencies, when they finance any project in Botswana ask the purchasers to follow the standard procurement process adopted by the particular funding agency. Accordingly, TendersOnTime covers all the notices: Botswana Procurement Plans, Botswana General Procurement Notices and Botswana Specific procurement Notices.

Apart from funding agencies, Botswana government is also giving major emphasis on addressing environmental concerns arising due to global warming.  TendersOnTime covers news on Botswana Sustainable Public Procurement and Botswana Green Public Procurement.

Arbitration and Reconciliation Services in Botswana:

When there is contract, there exist the probability of dispute. The disputes may arise on various accounts like: different interpretation of clauses, inability of the contractor to full fill any particular obligation due to some constraints and in some cases skipping few points which neither party could envisage.

In order to lessen the burden on formal courts, the Botswana government encourage settlement of commercial disputes through Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods, and Arbitration is one of the most preferred method. TendersOnTime through its empanelled Arbitrators provide these services in Botswana. Our experts are well versed with:

• Botswana Public Procurement Act
• Botswana Public Procurement Legislation
• Botswana Public Procurement Policy
• Botswana Public Procurement Law
• PPADB Act
• PPADB Codes
• PPADB Guidelines
• PPADB Regulations
• Botswana Public Procurement Reforms

Botswana Business Environment:

It’s always not the government who is responsible for creating infrastructure in Botswana. Like in any other country private sector also plays an important role in nation's building. But then it is the responsibility of the government to create a conducive environment so that private sector can flourish. This can be achieved by not only one single measure but it requires many structural changes at macro level specially in policy making, protecting minority investors, taxation, labour law, permits, protection of property rights and many more.

As per World Bank Doing Business report, May 2019 Botswana ranked at 86 position with the total score of 65.4. To know more about how other economies are performing on this parameter, please read the full report at: World Bank Doing Business Report, 2019.

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