"needed to be provided" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something needs to be given or done. For example: "The information needed to be provided by the end of the week."
But the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said money needed to be provided this year to many districts that cut spending rather than raise taxes.
The spokesperson added that search and rescue operations needed to be continued and safer routes needed to be provided for the migrants.
"We have policies and practices built when colleges were filled with full-time, 18- to 22-year-old students who needed to be provided not only educational opportunities, but fed, protected, counseled and given recreation," she said.
The prime minister, who returned to Downing Street from his holiday in Spain prior to meetings on the Paralympic Games on Thursday, before resuming his holidays elsewhere, also agreed with Obama that more support needed to be provided to the Syrian opposition.
First, good starting values needed to be provided in order to find a solution.
This enabled HSA to rationalize what documents needed to be provided by the industry and which departments in the agency should evaluate the documents throughout the life cycle of the products.
An appropriate HeadFinder needs to be provided.
If not, what further information needs to be provided?
It is something that needs to be provided to all sides, not just one side.
Therefore, while human rights need to be enhanced, food supplies still need to be provided.
American embassies everywhere will need to be provided with the highest possible standards of physical security.
