TANZANIA • g) The name, the address, the telephone number and the working hours of the respective institution? • h) The contact details of public officials? i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic messages and requests for information? The website contains name, address and telephone number of the institution, but does not state the working hours. No contact details of public officials provided on the website. • The website has a PMIS (Project Management Information System) Portal and a procurement forum as the mechanisms to request, receive and respond to information. Total Score: 12/20 Category 2- Request for Information The following questions were sent to the PPRA: 1. What can you say is the status of the procurement industry/sector/profession in the country? 2. What sort of procurement disputes do you handle at your agency? 3. How many cases are brought to the authority every year and how many have you successfully solved, ever since your were established? 4. How do you make yourself -as an organisation and what you do- known to the general public? 5. How independent is the PPRA? Part 1: Requests for written information n = 20 Yes No 1. Is there an official designated to take and respond to information requests? (Please state title of officials in ‘Additional Information’) • Public Relations Officer 2. Did the institution reply within 21 days? (If less than 7 please state in ‘Additional Information’) • Call reception is good. All correspondence received is kept in a system. Once the letter is in the process it takes five working days to be processed. The reply letter was received on the 11th of June. 3. Did the institution respond to a request for information? • • 4. Does the authority publish their procedures for dealing with information requests? 5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? (If partially please mark ‘No’ and indicate in ‘Additional Information’ how much of the information requested was supplied) • 6. Did the institution provide written reasons for the refusal of information? (If information was not refused, please contact institution to find out what the policy is in this regard –if the institution supplies written reasons for refusal mark ‘Yes’) • 7. Did the institution disclose information about its operations, budgets, structure etc. • 8. Did the authority provide information without questioning the aims and motivations of the applicant? • 10. Was the information received clear and understandable? Total Score: 16/20 In cases of extra explanations demanded, the institution directed us to the relevant resources, mainly their website. But upon additional request • 9. Did the institution acknowledge your request for information within 7 days? 88 Additional Information •