The Ministry of Finance, in partnership with the National Center for Government Resources Systems, announced the launch of the financial claims service through the "Etimad platform", where the service allows the private sector to execute its projects and financial transactions according to the highest standards of efficiency and transparency within the ministry's efforts to achieve the Kingdom's vision 2030.
The Assistant Minister of Finance for Financial Affairs, Yasser Al-Quhaidan, explained that the launch of the service comes within the framework of the government's continued support of the private sector; To enable him to contribute to promoting economic growth to achieve the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, noting that the service reflects the Ministry’s values of (transparency, partnership, achievement, and commitment).
The advantages of the service are to help the private sector and the government entity to file a financial claim for contracts, prevent the recurrence of the financial claim from both parties, as well as give the private sector the opportunity to know the status of the financial claim and enable it to obtain certificates of completion, while facilitating its follow-up procedures for issuing exchange orders and payment of all claims without An exception when the justifications for disbursement are completed in accordance with the terms of the contract. He pointed out that the service of raising financial claims allows the private sector to submit financial claims directly to government entities through an accreditation platform and complete the procedures for the payment cycle electronically, drawing attention to performance monitoring through service level agreements.
The Etimad platform had achieved a qualitative leap in the services of competitions, contracts, payments, employee financial dues, revenue collection and other services provided to the beneficiary sectors, reflecting the size of the efforts made with the aim of digital transformation of public financial procedures. The Ministry of Finance called on contractors and suppliers to register and benefit from the service of filing financial claims by visiting the website
www.etimad.sa