An improperly constituted Evaluation Committee for the Ministry of Education’s Ministerial Tender Board (MTB) illegally granted 16 contracts valued at $10.678 million, the 2009 Auditor General’s report says.
The report said that the operations of the MTB did not conform to the requirements of the Procurement Act (2003). According to Section 23(5) of the Act, the MTB is required to “select from the pool of evaluators appointed by the National Board under Section 17,