Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has won its protest of the award of the contract for the supply of juice for the Ministry of Education’s school feeding programme after the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) ruled that the evaluating committee did not stick to the criteria stipulated in the tender documents.
The BPC therefore annulled the part of the procurement process dealing with the evaluation of tenders which implies that the process would have to be done over. DDL was also awarded the cost of the preparation of its bid. It had also asked for the BPC to order the ministry to evaluate or re-evaluate the company’s bid based on the criteria specified in the tender documents but the BPC made