{"id":2832,"date":"2017-08-11T09:58:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2017-09-20T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:32:30","slug":"there-is-a-lot-of-ugliness-in-the-tendering-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/there-is-a-lot-of-ugliness-in-the-tendering-process\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a lot of ugliness in the tendering process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>This writer has been involved with tendering for security contracts for over 38 years. I have seen a lot of ugliness in this process. However, I wish to state that in recent years things seem to have taken a dip for the worse and this gives a negative image to the government of the day. In fairness, I do not believe that the government encourages corruption or is involved in the deceit that preponderates in the system of tender awards. At the same time, anyone can see that the award of tenders usually involves favouritism, nepotism and even corruption. Of course, I also observed this practice during the term of the previous government as well.<\/p>\n<p>Being a businessman who is involved in the security industry, I can comment on the hardships faced when tendering for security contracts. However, I believe this is a common phenomenon in other industries as well. Sadly, it does not only happen with ministerial tenders, but also with those involving the regions, institutions, corporations, government agencies and government commissions. As I have continuously stated, I have no political axe to grind. As a patriot, all I desire is good governance from whoever is elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2017\/opinion\/letters\/07\/27\/there-is-a-lot-of-ugliness-in-the-tendering-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: \u00a0Svante Adermark (flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, This writer has been involved with tendering for security contracts for over 38 years. I have seen a lot of ugliness in this process. However, I wish to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2876,"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":[116,113],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-guyana","tag-tenders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Letters-Svante-Adermark-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C684&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-JG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24598,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/government-not-absolved-from-pointing-out-breaches-in-awards-of-contracts-goolsarran\/","url_meta":{"origin":2832,"position":0},"title":"Government not absolved from pointing out breaches in awards of contracts \u2013 Goolsarran","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"October 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana Following President Irfaan Ali\u2019s defence of the $556.9 million award to Kares Contracting for the construction of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School in Georgetown, former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran, says that government is not absolved from pointing out breaches in the awards of contracts as per the Pro-curement Act\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pexels-anete-lusina-4792282-scaled-e1665684983652.jpg?fit=1024%2C836&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pexels-anete-lusina-4792282-scaled-e1665684983652.jpg?fit=1024%2C836&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pexels-anete-lusina-4792282-scaled-e1665684983652.jpg?fit=1024%2C836&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pexels-anete-lusina-4792282-scaled-e1665684983652.jpg?fit=1024%2C836&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16283,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/all-govt-contracts-will-be-made-public\/","url_meta":{"origin":2832,"position":1},"title":"All Govt Contracts Will Be Made Public","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"April 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"ALL government contract awards will be published online and in newspapers when a Public Procurement Bill being debated in the House of Assembly is passed and comes into force,\u00a0Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said\u00a0yesterday. 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