The Bureau of Public Procurement has announced plans to blacklist contractors who violate procurement rules as part of efforts to strengthen accountability and curb abuses in public contracting nationwide.
The Director-General of the BPP, Adebowale Adedokun, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday during the inaugural Procurement Evolution Day held to mark 19 years of procurement reforms in Nigeria.
Adedokun said the bureau had introduced a debarment policy that would sanction and blacklist defaulting contractors both within and outside Nigeria.
He said, “The government has indeed provided a policy of debarment to strictly sanction any contractors nationally and globally.”
The BPP boss said the measure formed part of a wider procurement reform agenda aimed at improving transparency, enforcing compliance and protecting public resources from abuse.
According to him, the bureau recently received approval to handle cases involving contract violations and fraudulent claims, while strengthening collaboration with anti-corruption agencies, civil society organisations and professional bodies.
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