Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:14:00 +0000 THE manner in which tenders have been floated and contracts awarded for the publication of school text books to publishers by the Ministry of General Education in the past few years has always raised concerns from the stakeholders and the nation at large. The outcry from the local publishers has been that the centralised procurement system, and not the decentralised, adopted by the Ministry of General Education favours a selected few foreign publishers whose companies are registered with the Patent and Companies Agency (PACRA) at the expense of local private publishing houses. For instance, according to the Ministry of General Education recently published notice of best evaluated bidders for the supply and delivery of textbooks for Grades 3, 7 and 12 a whooping US$ 3, 457, 000 million has been allocated to the Grey Matter Zambia, a foreign publisher representing Longhorn Publishers of Kenya while only about K2, […]
