{"id":17609,"date":"2021-07-22T21:28:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T02:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=17609"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:37:37","slug":"ksamc-to-face-grilling-over-road-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/ksamc-to-face-grilling-over-road-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"KSAMC to face grilling over road contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Robert Hill, is expected to explain to members of Parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) why almost 90 per cent of the 630 contracts the corporation awarded over a six-year period were done through the direct and emergency contracting procedure.<\/p>\n<p>In a performance audit of the corporation in late 2020, the Auditor General\u2019s Department (AuGD) stated that there were no records to support the basis for preselection of contractors.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, the AuGD sent to Parliament a compendium report of performance audit management systems for farm and parochial roads for the KSAMC, the St Catherine Municipal Corporation (SCMC), and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA).<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the main procurement methodologies utilised by the three entities combined, KSAMC, SCMC, and RADA, were limited tender and direct contracting.<\/p>\n<p>Over a six-year period, the three public bodies awarded contracts amounting to more than $8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis reported that even though the competitive tender provided the best opportunity for receipt of value for money, only nine per cent of the 769 road contracts over the period 2014-15 to 2019-20 were awarded using this methodology.<\/p>\n<p>The report showed that the SCMC could not justify emergency classification for 23 contracts worth $22 million, while in 11 instances, works on contracts amounting to $15.4 million had started before agreements were signed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/lead-stories\/20210615\/ksamc-face-grilling-over-road-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>image: pexels-cytonn-photography<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Robert Hill, is expected to explain to members of Parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) why almost 90&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":17610,"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":[110,173,124],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-contracting","tag-contracts","tag-jamaica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-cytonn-photography-955393-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1709&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-4A1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24592,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/integrity-commission-finds-ksamc-in-breach-of-procurement-guidelines\/","url_meta":{"origin":17609,"position":0},"title":"Integrity Commission finds KSAMC in breach of procurement guidelines","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"October 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Jamaica THE Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has been called out by the Integrity Commission for breaches of Government procurement guidelines related to the award of a contract 10 years ago to Knightsman Security for services at the Downtown Kingston Transport Centre.. 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