Following a request by Stabroek News, the Ministry of Housing and Water has released the names of the awardees of nearly $14b worth of contracts in the housing and infrastructure sectors and a number of contractors have clinched multiple awards.
The contracts were signed on Tuesday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre but it does not appear as if the media were invited. On Thursday Stabroek News asked the Ministry of Housing and Water for the information and it was released.
Four infrastructure contracts each were signed with Khemraj Nauth Contracting Services ($771m), Colin Talbot Contracting Service ($665m) and Annirud Ramcharitar Construction firm ($475m). The awarding of multiple large contracts at the same time has raised questions in the past about whether the contractors would be capable of executing all of the projects in a timely and efficient manner.