Contracts for the procurement of medical consumables worth around $178m have been cleared for a number of suppliers including New GPC.
Under the PPP/C government, New GPC had been the only company prequalified for medical supplies to the public health system. The APNU+AFC administration had vowed to roll this back and though it has not spelt out how this is being done it was notable at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press briefing that other suppliers including at least one that had challenged the New GPC monopoly are also among the contracts.
Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman announced that contracts were cleared to Global Health Services Limited in the sum of $8 072, 547; Caribbean Medical Supplies $70,483, 202 and $20, 258,074; New GPC Inc, $11,122,105 and $34, 028,622 and International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) in the sum of $33, 892, 095. IPA had gone to court over the New GPC monopoly.
Trotman also said that cabinet has offered its no objections to seven contracts for rehabilitation of community roads in five regions.
He said that residents in Regions Three, Four, Five, Six and Ten are set to benefit from the road works.
He said no objections were given to contracts for the rehabilitation of community roads in Region Three. Contracts were cleared for Mohamed Ramzan Ali Khan in the sum of $15, 976, 590, and Compustruc Engineering in the sum of $15,184,400.
In Region Four contracts were awarded to Excel Engineering in the sum of $22,348,725, and Latchman Business Establishment and Civil Works in the sum of $16,990,050.
In Region Five a contract for road rehabilitation was cleared for H. Nauth and Sons to the tune of $36,597,750 and in Region Six Latchman Business Establishment and Civil Works was given the green light for a contract valued $28,081,900
In Region Ten, F. Jagmohan’s Hardware Supplies and Construction Company was cleared for a contract worth $31,535,350, he said.
Meanwhile, Trotman revealed that cabinet also granted no objections for contracts in other sectors.
No objections were given to a contract for the delivery of dietary supplies to the Dora and Kuru Kuru Schools which was given to Guynaz Enterprises in the sum of $40, 132, 130.
He said that there were also contracts for the provision of services at the Lusignan landfill facility which were given the go ahead for Pooran Brothers Disposal Services to the tune of $18, 739,000.
According to Trotman, cabinet also greenlighted a contract for the provision of security services at the Ministry of Communities. This contract was granted to Federal Management Systems to the tune of $55, 319, 750.
He said that it should be borne in mind that with regards to these contracts it is expected that “they will be completed and carried out within this budgetary year which comes to an end in December”. He said that it is also hoped that they would add the “necessary stimulus” in the construction industry and would provide jobs to persons in the various regions where the works are to be executed.
