President Boakai Awards PPCC for Excellent Performance

The Public Procurement and Concessions Commission (PPCC) has been recognized and certificated by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, for its outstanding contributions to public sector excellence in Liberia.

In a well-attended ceremony held at the Ministerial Complex on June 12, 2025, President Boakai presented the Performance Excellence Award in recognition of PPCC’s outstanding commitment to service delivery, accountability and achievement of performance targets.

The PPCC was among fifteen public sector institutions from the list of ninety entities of government to have received the special awards from President Boakai, under the approved Service Delivery Charter implementation modalities, which require or mandate appointed officials and heads of public sector institutions to achieve the approved performance targets as contained in the 2024 Performance Management and Compliance System (PMCS).        

Part of the performance targets achieved by PPCC during the period under review include, but not limited to the reduction of lead time of procurement requests from five to three days, introduction and operationalization of Quick Book Accounting Software for effective financial management and reporting, initiation and implementation of personnel and performance management, improvement of office infrastructure to create favorable work environment, provision of office equipment to strengthen staff capacity and enhance performance, as well as development and publication of the Service Delivery Charter.            

The presentation of the award marks a significate milestone in the work of PPCC and implementation of the public procurement reform agenda of Liberia, especially during this period in our nation history where the public procurement sector is transitioning from paper-based procurement to electronic procurement, with the ultimate objective of achieving greater transparency and accountability in public procurement.

The head of PPCC, Hon. Bodger Scott Johnson, is by all accounts the touch-bearer of these achievements, owing to his steadfastness, capability, leadership charisma and inordinate pursuit for excellence.   

Also, his style of leadership and diligent working spirit have added more values to the forward march of the PPCC and ignited stronger collaboration with international development partners and different public procurement stakeholders.     

As matter of information, the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission, with support from the World Bank and other development partners, has developed an Electronic Government Procurement(e-GP) System, based on Software-As-A- Service (SAAS) module, and has rolled it out to six Ministries, Agencies and Commissions (MACs).  The roll-out is part of Phase One of the e-GP Project that was initiated in 2024.

The e-GP System currently accounts for over four hundred (400) businesses from the private sector and One Hundred Fifty-four (154) users from the six piloted MACs. Almost one hundred percent of the entities’ procurement transactions is done through the system. This signals a new dawn in the public procurement system of Liberia and a shift from a manual public procurement approach, that is mostly prone to corruption and individual discretion. 

Fifty(50) additional institutions of the Liberian government, including state owned enterprises (SOEs), will be enrolled to the e-GP System, beginning this year, 2025, and all procurement transactions for the earmarked institutions will be done through the e-GP System.