The Government of Botswana has, on several occasions, called for greater economic empowerment of its citizens. The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) has responded by examining its existing practices and require-ments under the PPADBAct. The act allows for reservations and preferential treatment in the public procurement system to be introduced by the board.A number of such schemes are already used in public procurement and asset disposal in Botswana; such as the Economic Diversification Drive, which aims to procure more from local manufacturers and service providers/Other preferential schemes are based onvendor-company ownership, with variable weighting applied to 100% citizen 'ownership, majority ownership, minority ownership and, lastly, foreign ownership. This is applied as a price preference for procurement in the construction industry, the information and communications technology (ICT) sector and the medicalsupply sector.
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