The Regional Tender Board of Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne) repeatedly failed to award maintenance contracts to the lowest bidder last year, the Auditor General has found.
The 2015 Auditor General’s report, which was recently laid in the National Assembly, states that while $504.853 million of $518.738 million allocated for maintenance was spent in the period, $147.586 million of that sum represented 79 contracts which “were not awarded to the lowest or most competitive bidder.”
In response to the observation, the regional accounting office noted that the reason the lowest bidder was