PRESS RELEASE: 50 Companies bid for NNPC’s Boat Supply Term Contract

A total of 50 companies recently submitted bids to partake in the provision of sea worthy Tug boats on charter time basis for the maritime operational requirements of the NNPC in Lagos, Warri and Port Harcourt.

The public bid opening event which was held at the Abuja Corporate Headquarters of the Corporation had in attendance representatives of the bidding companies with officials of the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and some members of the civil society as observers.

Successful companies would be engaged on a two year term contract in the first instance with an option of renewal for a further one year.

NEITI’S 2013 AUDIT REPORTS: ADDRESS BY DR. KAYODE FAYEMI, CHAIRMAN OF NSWG, AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE AT ROCKVIEW HOTEL, ABUJA

Protocols

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this press conference. This event, as you know, was convened to present to the public the reports of the 2013 oil & gas and solid minerals audits, commissioned by NEITI. Going by the standards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the 2013 reports should have been released latest by December 2015. NEITI was set to meet this deadline, as it had always done since 2004 when Nigeria signed on to the global initiative for promoting transparency and accountability in the management of revenues from the extractive sector. But you will all recall that the boards of all government agencies were dissolved on 16 July 2015. Even when the commissioned auditors were done with their work, the reports could not be released until reviewed and approved by the National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG), which is the board of NEITI.