{"id":10078,"date":"2019-08-19T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=10078"},"modified":"2019-08-16T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:05:48","slug":"sole-sourced-or-open-tender-questions-surface-over-contract-awarded-to-exxonmobils-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/sole-sourced-or-open-tender-questions-surface-over-contract-awarded-to-exxonmobils-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole Sourced or Open Tender? Questions surface over contract awarded to ExxonMobil\u2019s employee"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, had announced that Oil Consultant, Dr. Michael Warner, was hired for $22M to complete Guyana\u2019s draft Local Content Policy.<\/p>\n

But several concerns were subsequently raised since Dr. Warner is also an employee of DAI, the contractor engaged by ExxonMobil to manage the Local Content Centre for Development located on South Road, Georgetown.<\/p>\n

There, the official provides training on how local businesses can fit themselves into the supply chain.
\nKaieteur News learnt that there are other local content experts who have no current attachment to an oil company and are not on an oil firm\u2019s payroll but were not approached about the tender.<\/p>\n

In light of this, questions are being raised on whether Dr. Warner was sole-sourced for the project. If he was not, and there was an open tender, who were the other individuals who sent in applications.<\/p>\n

Transparency advocates also want the Government to say when the tender for this project was made available, since the Ministry of the Presidency\u2019s website has no such information about the contract nor does the Procurement Plan for the World Bank funded capacity development programme, which is managed by the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n

At the Ministry of the Presidency, yesterday, Director General Joseph Harmon, was asked to provide answers to the aforementioned questions since he is responsible for helping President, David Granger manage the Energy Department.<\/p>\n

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Image:\u00a0 Cytonn Photography (Pexels<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In February, Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, had announced that Oil Consultant, Dr. Michael Warner, was hired for $22M to complete Guyana\u2019s draft Local Content…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[116,146,71],"class_list":["post-10078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-guyana","tag-procedures","tag-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Handshake-Cytonn-Photography-Pexels.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-2Cy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21168,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/procurement-board-corrects-error-in-bid-for-cost-oil-auditing\/","url_meta":{"origin":10078,"position":0},"title":"Procurement board corrects error in bid for cost oil auditing","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"March 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana A data entry error resulted in the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) listing only one of the three companies in a consortium that bid to audit Guyana\u2019s cost oil and the agency\u2019s website has since made a correction to reflect all the companies involved. 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