-says only eight of 32 bidders were compliant
Government yesterday defended the contract awards for the construction of the $11.8 billion Schoonord-to-Crane Highway insisting that the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) followed all legal procurement steps.
It disclosed that only eight of the 32 bids were responsive. Questions have been raised about the decisions being made by the evaluation committees of the NPTAB.
“The NPTAB accepted the recommendations made by the Evaluators based on their representations regarding the respective contractors’ capacity to execute the individual lots in a timely manner, given the urgency within which the project was required to be completed,” a release from the Ministry of Finance stated.