Former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran has called on City Hall to rescind the secret contract for the installation and operation of parking meters in Georgetown even as he pointed out that procurement laws were not followed.
In accordance with Section 231 of the Municipal and District Councils’ Act, before entering into any contract for the execution of any work or the supply of any goods to the value of $250,000, or more, a council is required to give notice of such proposed contract and “shall by such notice invite any person willing to undertake the same to submit a sealed tender thereof to the council…”, Goolsarran pointed out in his Accountability Watch column in today’s Stabroek News.
He noted that the Minister may by directions in writing, exempt