{"id":2838,"date":"2017-08-11T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:35:23","slug":"m-contracts-awarded-via-personal-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/m-contracts-awarded-via-personal-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"$m contracts awarded via personal e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAIRMAN of the Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) Board Tenders Committee (BTC) Jeffery Francis used his personal e-mail address to direct that the scope of works be altered to facilitate contractors bidding for work.<\/p>\n<p>Francis is also a director on the Arnold Piggott-led EFCL board.<\/p>\n<p>This apparent conflict of interest saw two contractors \u2014 Trinsulate 2 Caribbean Ltd and Watts Electrical Contractors Company Ltd \u2014 being awarded millions of dollars in contracts despite scoring low in an evaluation report and not being on EFCL\u2019s approved contractors list, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20170520\/news\/m-contracts-awarded-via-personal-e-mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: \u00a0Carlos Garc\u00eda Torrado (flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAIRMAN of the Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) Board Tenders Committee (BTC) Jeffery Francis used his personal e-mail address to direct that the scope of works be altered to facilitate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2870,"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":[110,137],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-contracting","tag-trinidad-and-tobago"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Email-marketing-Carlos-Garci%CC%81a-Torrado-flickr.jpg?fit=1000%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-JM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29967,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/school-roof-failure-exposes-contractors-board-absence\/","url_meta":{"origin":2838,"position":0},"title":"School roof failure exposes Contractors Board absence","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"September 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Bahamas The Bahamian Contractors Association's (BCA) president yesterday said the recent collapse of roof trusses at R. 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