Uganda: Call for 30% local content

The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) has called for a government guideline requiring at least 30% of the value of contracts to be reserved for local contractors to be applied in the oil industry. Acting PPDA executive director Benson Turamye told the Daily Monitor that the guideline already applied to procurement by government ministries, departments and agencies, but procurement tenders in the oil industry were not necessarily subjected to the same rules.