Exceptions are procurement reports of lopinavir/ritonavir and ritonavir where less than 40% of the reporting countries are low-income (Additional file 1, Tables 1 and 2).
In addition to interviews, the evaluators reviewed reports collected during program implementation, such as site improvement reports, training assessment reports, drug registration and procurement reports, and information related to the availability of misoprostol.
A local politician thought that the consultant's report was an addition to the procurement report.
The report stated, "The SBA awarded four of the six high dollar procurements, reported as small business procurements, to large companies at the time of the procurements".
In addition, the number of procurements reported was very small.
In addition, our data does not capture 100% of the market but rather include only ARV procurements reported to GFATM and WHO, the majority of which are funded by GFATM, PEPFAR, and UNITAID.
An evaluation of the procurement system reported that quality and motivation problems persisted.
Considerable progress had been made already in both horizontal scale up (geographic expansion) and vertical scale up (institutionalization, such as, inclusion in norms, training, supervision, procurement, and reporting systems).
Significant progress has been made in this area, namely in the areas of staff recruitment and training, equipment procurement, revision of reporting tools (including a move towards electronic reporting), and the creation of a National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy in 2009 [ 81].
The large variation in false negative rates estimated for individual laboratories reporting to the RVDSS suggests that standardization of sample procurement, testing and reporting procedures would likely reduce the overall false negative rate.
And the World Bank lost $500,000 in 1997 in a sophisticated fraud scheme involving false government procurement documents, the report said.
