The biggest single buyer of goods and services in Zimbabwe is by a wide margin the State, including all ministries, agencies, those special companies set up to run a State service, the parastatals and local authorities. And the money used to buy all these goods and services is our money, what the State raises in taxes and fees, so the public have a definite and strong interest in knowing how the money is spent, what is bought and how it is bought.
State procurement has been upgraded over the decades, reflecting both the complexity of the procurement operations and the fact that so much of what is now bought does not fit into a simple tender procedure based on purchase price.
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