USTDA Strengthens Efforts to Promote Value-Based Procurement in Ethiopia
February 3, 2016
(USTDA)
Provides advisory services to national power
generation and transmission company
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Today, the U.S. Trade
and Development Agency awarded a grant to
Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), Ethiopia’s
national power generation and transmission
company, to provide technical assistance under
the Global Procurement Initiative:
Understanding Best Value (GPI). The grant will
fund a senior procurement advisor to help EEP
achieve value for money in publicly funded
energy projects, including those that support
President Obama’s Power
Africa initiative, which aims to increase
electricity access in Ethiopia and across
sub-Saharan Africa.
“USTDA and EEP are looking forward to working
together under this exciting phase of the GPI,”
said Lida Fitts, USTDA’s Acting Regional
Director for sub-Saharan Africa, who signed the
grant alongside EEP CEO Eng. Azeb Asnake.
“EEP’s commitment to incorporating value-based
procurement methods into their public tenders
will help them achieve better outcomes from
those tenders, leading to better quality and
more reliability in the energy sector.”
The grant builds on USTDA’s efforts to help the
Government of Ethiopia establish best-value
procurement practices, including the use of
life-cycle cost analysis, in its tender
processes. In October 2015, USTDA and its GPI
partner, the George Washington University
Government Procurement Law Program, provided
training to 50 procurement officials from EEP,
the Public Procurement and Property
Administration Agency, and other federal
entities. This April, USTDA will host a group
of senior Ethiopian officials in the United
States to highlight U.S. federal, state and
municipal examples of best value and life-cycle
cost analysis in the procurement process.
The goal of the GPI is to advance partner
countries’ capacity to carry out effective
infrastructure procurements. In Ethiopia, the
use of international best practices and
policies in public procurement can support
sustainable infrastructure development,
increase access to energy and enhance economic
growth.
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