The fact that the procurement commission found major breaches in the evaluation process but said it could do nothing about the pump station contract awarded to Tepui Inc., is a dereliction of duty and indication of incompetence says APNU+AFC Member of Parliament David Patterson.
“From their response alone (the Public Procurement Commission) in other words is telling the public that a complaint can be filed concerning a contract being awarded in contravention of its bidding and evaluation criteria and once the investigations are done and the contract has already been successfully awarded there is nothing they can do about it, so in other words they are saying that they are useless”, Patterson told Stabroek News on Wednesday.
The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) on Tuesday issued a summary of findings in relation to Patterson’s complaint since he was not an aggrieved party and was therefore only entitled to recommendations on the way forward.