PPC vows `thorough’ probe of Tepui contract award

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) yesterday stated that a “thorough” investigation will be done of the awarding of a pump station contract to the Tepui group and that responses are expected in a fortnight from the NDIA and the national tender board.

In a press release, the PPC was responding to a Sunday Stabroek news item headlined `Stop playing games with Tepui contract’ in which Member of Parliament David Patterson lamented that five weeks had elapsed without an update on the controversial awarding of the $865m Belle Vue pump station contract to Tepui.

Patterson had been pressing the PPC on this matter for two months.