{"id":28249,"date":"2023-06-08T23:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T04:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=28249"},"modified":"2023-06-08T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:40:12","slug":"munroe-says-new-prison-contract-is-fnm-holdover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/munroe-says-new-prison-contract-is-fnm-holdover\/","title":{"rendered":"Munroe says new prison contract is FNM holdover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahamas<\/p>\n

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said it was the Minnis administration that initially awarded a no-bid, multi-million dollar contract to Walker\u2019s Industries to build a high-medium security facility at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDOCS).<\/p>\n

\u201cI met Walker\u2019s engaged,\u201d he said yesterday. \u201cPerhaps you should call Marvin Dames.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the current legal regime, failing to open such projects to bids could put the government afoul of the Public Procurement Act. However, Mr Munroe said the Minnis administration signed off on it before the original procurement law came into force in September 2021. That law has since been repealed and replaced.<\/p>\n

Mr Munroe said initially the project was expected to use the wagon-wheel design that was once the standard among corrections facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they were looking at the wagon-wheel thing, when you priced it at pre-COVID, prices was $45m pre-COVID before supply chain interruption, without renewables,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The wagon-wheel design has since been nixed, and the Davis administration has expanded construction plans from a $40m high-medium facility to a $90m correctional institution, administrative, housing and medical facility.<\/p>\n

Mr Munroe defended the administration\u2019s decision not to open the project for bids once their plan expanded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would you,\u201d he said, \u201cgo out to tender if you were going to select somebody to build something inadequate for $40m? Why would you suddenly go out to tender if the American Correctional Facility tells you what you have there won\u2019t be certified? You\u2019re missing two clinics. You\u2019re missing special housing for psychiatric people. You\u2019ve set it out wrong. If you accept that you could select a person to build an inadequate $40m design project, why would the fact when you design it properly you suddenly have to go out to tender?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sources have told The Tribune that Walker\u2019s Industries has no reputation for large-scale projects like the one slated for the BDOCS.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mr Munroe said the company specialises in electrical work critical to corrections facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s prefabricated steel cell and SteelCell, the US company who build these all over the US, they\u2019re the contractor to put together the steel cells,\u201d he said. \u201cThe other part of it is cable and control systems to open doors, to use spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhen you look at the plan,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe biggest part of the plan other than prefabricating the cells are the control systems, what people seem to say Walker\u2019s do. The part that aren\u2019t related to that basically are creating a concrete shell, putting in the water treatment, because we had to add the water treatment, and the solar stuff because we have a government policy on renewables.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson, the last state minister of finance in the Minnis administration, said yesterday he could not recall the Minnis administration signing off on a contract with Walker\u2019s Industries for anything related to the\u00a0BDOCS.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t see that he\u2019s saying he met something in place, but the work is supposed to start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Former National Security Minister Marvin Dames could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

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