"This is the first time we launched contracts for the procurement of goods and services," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mulyono said after the signing ceremony here on Friday.
The signing of the contracts is in line with the instruction of the president that the year 2016 is year of acceleration of work.
With the signing of the contracts early this year implementation of working program of the army could be implemented immediately, the general said.
"We select the works as we could not carry out all at once. There is priorities which we include in the contract," he said.
There are 664 contracts to be signed worth Rp8 trillion but now only 147 of the contract signed valued at Rp2.1 trillion, he said.
Mulyono did not give details of the goods and services included in the contracts, but he said there were 16 providers of the goods and services.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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