<p><a href="/en/afganistan/kabul" class="glossify-link">KABUL</a> (Pajhwok): The National Procurement Commission (NPC) has introduced electronic-procurement system to speed up affairs and has asked all companies to become part of the system over the next three months, an official said on Monday.</p>
<p>Eng. Elham Umar Hotaki, general director of the NPC, said if a company failed to register itself in the system in the coming three months, such companies could not take part in government bidding process.</p>
<p>Elham was addressing a meeting “Supporting Private Sector in Procurement Process” here. He said private companies could enter the system with support of NPC as there would be digital categorization for private companies.</p>
<p>At today’s meeting, he said, over 200 private sector companies would provide their views regarding the use of the digital system.</p>
<p>Syed Ajmal Shahna, acting head of monitoring and development of the project, said the new system would help address some issues which existed earlier.</p>
<p>He added out of the total 368 contracts, 275 contracts had serious problems in their implementation due to which some government programs could not implemented.</p>
<p>He cited vorruption, lack of transparency, delay in transfer of information, insecurity, lack of professional human resources as main challenges in implementation of the halted projects.</p>
<p>nh/ma</p>
