Parliament Office is tasting its way through a variety of dishes towards selecting a caterer to provide culinary delights to Guyana’s lawmakers, this newspaper understands.
And longstanding parliamentary caterer Kirkpatrick’s Catering is still hoping that it gets a chance to again serve ‘in the House’.
According to Marjorie Kirkpatrick, the selection process is ongoing and all of the tendering companies’ goodies are being sampled. She said that as far as she knows the contract hasn’t been awarded as yet.
Kirkpatrick’s Catering was given another chance to apply to offer catering services to parliament with the reopening of the tender process, after the company was left out of the process.
She had written a letter to Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran indicating that her company would not have been bidding for the provision of the services since she missed the advertisements in the press inviting caterers to bid.
On September 13, this newspaper reported that after 54 years of catering to the needs of the country’s parliamentarians, Kirkpatrick’s Catering, a family business, was left behind after not noticing the call for tenders until it was too late. The process was subsequently reopened.
