Georgetown : Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said the Government of Guyana has not yet awarded any contracts for the provision of textbooks to the Ministry of Education for distribution to students, as the issue is still at the tender board stage.
Dr. Luncheon said after this week’s Cabinet meeting, consideration of the original tender has not been completed. “It has not been officially returned from the tender board with a recommendation for an award by Cabinet.
He acknowledged that the recent injunction granted by the Court against the selling of duplicated text books locally would have an impact on those awards.
He pointed out that with arrangements with publishers, the Government and interested parties in the sector, that is, the lawyers within the sector, “that arrangement would have to be completed before this matter gets to the point where contracts could indeed be given out for the procurement of textbooks.”
The issue of textbook procurement surfaced two weeks ago when the media reported that Government was infringing on copyright laws. The focus was on one of the policy considerations for procurement tenders, which stated that the books supplied, must be as close as possible to the original text.
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