Bauchi Opens Bids For N7.1bn Intervention Projects

Bauchi State authorities has opened the bidding process for the 2024 Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC)/Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) involution projects, valued astatine N7,109,285,168.92.

Speaking during the ceremonial held yesterday astatine BA-SUBEB headquarters, the enforcement president of the Board, Alhaji Adamu Muhammad Duguri, said the workout was aimed astatine strengthening transparency, accountability, and owed diligence successful task execution.

He added that the process besides provides an accidental to recognise the beingness of stakeholders and committed contractors.

Represented by the imperishable caput of SUBEB, Abdulhamid Muhammad Jubrin, Duguri explained that the involution task is simply a associated initiative, with some UBEC and the Bauchi State Government contributing an adjacent counterpart money of N3,554,642,584.46 each.

The bidding slots screen components specified arsenic operation and renovation of classrooms, drilling of manus pump boreholes, proviso of VIP toilets, Early Childhood Care Development Education (ECCDE) furniture, arsenic good arsenic furnishings for primary, inferior secondary, and teachers.

Duguri commended Governor Bala Mohammed and the enforcement caput of UBEC for releasing counterpart funds promptly, describing the motion arsenic important to sustaining the gait of acquisition improvement successful the state.

He besides appreciated different improvement partners for their continuous enactment successful the sector.

While urging contractors to support patience and maturity arsenic lone a fewer would look successful, Duguri warned that the Board would not compromise standards.

He charged palmy bidders to strictly adhere to declaration specifications, stressing that the medication is determined to supply a befitting teaching and learning situation crossed the state.

The manager of carnal readying astatine SUBEB, Adamu Y. Abdullahi, noted that since making the bidding process an yearly event, the Board has achieved a 98% completion complaint successful involution projects betwixt 2017 and 2023. He attributed the occurrence to the dedication of SUBEB’s president and staff.

Also speaking, the manager of schoolhouse services of the board, Shuaibu Usman, emphasised the value of histrion planting successful schools to amended the learning environment. He revealed plans to found a clime alteration nine crossed schools to beforehand biology sustainability.

In his remarks, president of the Bauchi State Contractors Association, Usama Aliyu Wundi, expressed assurance successful the government’s existent show successful declaration awards and pledged the contractors’ committedness to delivering prime projects successful enactment with the agreements.

Wundi added that, “With the government’s existent commitment, we are assured that our contractors volition strictly adhere to the declaration statement passim the duration of the project.”