OAPFD hosts pilot training for PFD online system

Muscat: The Omani Authority for Partnership for Development (OAPFD) hosted the second pilot training for partnership for development programme (PFD) online system. The PFD online system will link government entities, contractors and OAPFD. Selected government entities and companies are obliged to implement the PFD programme and attended the session.
The objective of the training session is to test the system and to ensure success of the online project through receiving customers’ feedback in order to refine the system to improve the effectiveness and users’ experience of the system before going live to the wider population.
During the session, SSL Company presented the process of applying the PFD programme by using the PFD/ICV (in-country value) online system to ensure that all requirements are met through feedback from the participants of the pilot. The PFD online system covers the entire PFD process from initiation, when contracts are awarded by various government entities, to signing of the PFD agreement, to complying with the PFD regulations process up to PFD project management and local market development, including monitoring and reporting.
"The electronic application of PFD programme will contribute greatly to facilitating and accelerating the implementation of the PFD programme process, capture PFD contributions for all government entities, and it will be a good platform to encourage contractors and OEMs to assess and consider the local industry, as part of their internal supply chain, to work together in order to develop the local capabilities and capacities. We look forward to launch the project and monitor its positive results in moving towards the development of the national economy," Rahma Al Riyamy, the online Project Manager, said.