The majority of government’s billboard business, worth tens of millions of dollars, has been channelled over the last 21 months to one company – Impressions Inc – to the detriment of other companies capable of the same work.
Sources say that the directing of the work to Impressions has escaped scrutiny as individual government ministries have not had to tender the works as the value of many of the contracts may fall under the limit required for tendering.
Impressions has had a longstanding close relationship with key PPP/C leaders and had been a major beneficiary of its advertising under earlier governments. It is unclear whether there has been a directive to the ministries to utilise Impressions but none of the other companies are benefiting from contracts.