Georgetown: The Public Procurement Commission which is a constitutional body born from the Public Procurement legislation should be established to investigate government’s engineers estimate and contracts for various sectors, according to political Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan.
Ramjattan noted that parliamentary opposition and the government submitted names of persons to sit on the commission. However, to date the government has procrastinated in implementing the body in view of many allegations of corruption.
Under the current Legislation, Cabinet has the right to review all procurements that exceed $15M. According to the legislation in force, Cabinet shall conduct its review on the basis of a streamlined tender evaluation report to be adopted by the Public Procurement Commission.
The Public Procurement Commission, once established, has the task of investigating complaints from contractors and public enterprises, along with suppliers and cases of irregularities. It has the authority to propose remedial action in all instances.
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