The Federal Government has unveiled a Digital Standards Platform aimed at transforming Nigeria’s quality infrastructure, improving access to industrial standards, strengthening public procurement and boosting the competitiveness of Made-in-Nigeria products.
The platform, jointly developed by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, the Bureau of Public Procurement and private technology firm, Goringo Consult Limited, is expected to digitise access to Nigerian Industrial Standards, certification services and compliance tools while making quality verification easier for manufacturers, businesses, procurement officers and consumers.
The initiative also introduces a major procurement reform, as the Nigerian Industrial Standards Attestation Certificate, obtainable through the platform, has now become a mandatory bid document for all Federal Government procurement involving goods, works and services where Nigerian Industrial Standards apply.
Speaking at the official launch on Friday in Abuja, the Minister of State for Industry, Senator John Owan Enoh, described the initiative as a landmark reform that would deepen industrialisation, improve the ease of doing business and strengthen the implementation of President Bola Tinubu’s Nigeria First Policy.
