W e feel we
must preserve our heritage for future generations by simultaneously embracing those future generations
Waleed Al Saeedi Director of Procurement Department
the industry becomes more and more mature, transparent and robust, organisations such as DCT need to go beyond technology. A key objective of DCT and the Abu Dhabi Government has been the support and enablement of SMEs in the region. “Technology will enable us to identify, register and include SMEs, something that we cannot do today without enlarging our headcount – it is very hard to do it efficiently,” he
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says. “Imagine the possibilities if all government entities can cooperate in this initiative; the SME sector will be able to access public procurement and we can build mutually beneficial supply partnerships.” “But possibly the largest influence we can have is in the transparency of public procurement, ethical compliance and sustainability because of the way in which information can be studied, compared and used to drive policy agendas