The Third Phase of the National Village Development Program (PNDS) that is running in 202 villages has begun the process of procurement and mobilizing workers. The supply and workforce mobilization meeting is the first step before implementing the construction.
The fundamental objective of the procurement meeting is to work out a way to orientate the communities on how to use the PNDS fund in a way that is in accordance with the principles of the procurement guide and financial regulations, so that the process can be guaranteed, transparent and accountable.
Specifically, the procurement process will be opened to all communities and particularly to the members of community within the village.
In the procurement process, the Program Implementation Team (EIP) will create a plan which defines the procurement in accordance with the PNDS’s Project Implementation Manual and Finance Operation Manual.
When the BoQ is finalized and the project implementation agreement has been signed, then the request for the transfer of village funds will be submitted. Once the funds have been deposited into each village’s bank account, the PIT will conduct an analysis of the funding and begin distributing quotation requests to the suppliers. After this, the PIT will be accompanied by the Administrative Post’s Financial Facilitator and will hold meetings with communities at the village level (including with all the members of the Accountability Planning Commission – KPA). In those meetings they will look at and evaluate the quotation requests that have been received so they can make a collected decision about which local companies will win to be a supplier for supplying the whole construction materials of the program to the village.
The mobilization of workforce for the PNDS project will mostly consist of local community or village or sub-village community. The labors will work as individuals or can work as part of g group according to the existing schedule. Payments will be based on each completed piece of work.
Based on this plan, once the procurement process and the workforce mobilization has been finalized, the 202 villages will begin the construction at approximately the start of August after the infrastructure funds for priority projects are deposited into each village’s bank account.