Fresh and salt beef: Errors made by ministry in awards for prison food – PPC

-laments six-month delay in receiving information

Following a complaint by M S Invest-ments, the NPTAB was found to have erred in its evaluation of tenders for the supply of food to the prisons and the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) recommended remedial action and lamented the six months it took for answers to be provided in its investigation.

In its Summary of Findings published on February 2nd this year, the PPC said that on June 6th 2023, it received a letter dated May 30th, 2023 from MS Invest-ments Manager, Siddiq Mohamed alleging irregularities in the awards for the procurement of dry and fresh rations for the Guyana Prison Service. He related to the PPC that on Tuesday May 30th, 2023, he received a Request to Purchase (RTP) for Timehri Prison via WhatsApp from the procuring entity listing the items that he was awarded through the evaluation process. That message also contained a RTP for  another bidder for the said tender which showed that the other bidder was awarded for four items, the price of which was higher than the bid of the MS Investments, to wit, for fresh beef, salt beef, mince beef and yam.