Accounting Officer — Procurement Responsibilities and Personal Liability

Accounting Officers have special procurement responsibilities, including presiding over Tenders Boards, ensuring adequate appropriation, integrating procurement expenditure into annual budgets, establishing and presiding over procurement planning committees, constituting procurement evaluation and procurement committees, rendering procurement returns, liaising with the Bureau of Public Procurement and ensuring organizational compliance with the Public Procurement Act. An Accounting Officer may be personally liable for breach or contravention whether caused personally, by subordinates or by a person to whom responsibility was delegated.

Reference: Federal Government Financial Regulations, FR 113