{"id":15405,"date":"2021-02-09T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=15405"},"modified":"2021-02-16T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:04:18","slug":"no-intention-to-deliberately-debar-contractors-public-works-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/no-intention-to-deliberately-debar-contractors-public-works-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"No intention to deliberately debar contractors \u2013 Public Works PS"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day after he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and revealed that he has ceased all contracts with Courtney Benn Contracting Services<\/a>, Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Public Works, Vladim Persaud has clarified that he has no intention to deliberately debar any contractor unless it is done through the right legal process.<\/p>\n

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Persaud told the PAC on Wednesday that the ministry took a position not to award contracts to contractors who have a large amount of outstanding work and large sums of outstanding money for the State.<\/p>\n

He said this by no means should be seen as debarment, explaining that such restriction can only be done through the process laid out in the Public Procurement Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen entities and contractors are bidding and they have been delinquent in the past, they have to indicate in their bidding document about past performance \u2026 those who are delinquent will most likely suffer and that has to be taken into consideration upon evaluation,\u201d Persaud told the News Room via telephone on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Persaud said under the law, all persons are allowed to bid for contracts unless debarred by the National Tender Board.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want it to be taken out of context that the Permanent Secretary is deliberating trying to stop persons work. No, that\u2019s not the intent,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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One day after he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and revealed that he has ceased all contracts with Courtney Benn Contracting Services, Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5178,"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":[250],"tags":[190,125],"class_list":["post-15405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-construction","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Construction-excavator-Life-Of-Pix-Pexels.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-40t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29494,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/procurement-body-invites-complaints-on-award-of-govt-contracts\/","url_meta":{"origin":15405,"position":0},"title":"Procurement body invites complaints on award of gov\u2019t contracts","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"August 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana Amid criticisms of it,\u00a0 the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) is inviting persons aggrieved over the award of\u00a0 any government contract to lodge a formal complaint so as to trigger an administrative review. \u201cDissatisfied with the rejection of your bid? 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