{"id":3252,"date":"2017-09-20T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2017-09-21T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:30:52","slug":"govt-once-again-sole-sourcing-from-ansa-mcal-this-time-515m-in-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/govt-once-again-sole-sourcing-from-ansa-mcal-this-time-515m-in-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt once again sole sourcing from Ansa McAl, this time $515M in drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026as Secret Cabinet memo surfaces<\/h4>\n

Despite pronouncements that government breached the laws of Guyana to award a $605M drug contract to one of its corporate supporters, the Administration has once again sidelined the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) to once again sole source in excess of half a billion dollars in drugs from Ansa McAl.<\/p>\n

The leaked secret Cabinet document outlines that the sub-committee considered and approved the procurement of emergency pharmaceuticals to the tune of $515.2M.<\/p>\n

The sole sourcing practice was vehemently railed against by the then opposition, now government, the coalition A Partnership for national Unity Alliance for Change (APNU\/AFC).<\/p>\n

Based on the contents of the document seen, the request to bypass NPTAB was submitted by the Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan and seeks to waive the competitive bidding and evaluation process in favour of sole sourcing the emergency supplies from Ansa McAl.<\/p>\n

The award of the contract is reminiscent of a similar contract that was handed to Ansa McAl to the tune of $605M, for which the Public Procurement Commission had launched an investigation and had found that there were breaches of Guyana\u2019s Procurement laws in order to facilitate the purchase.<\/p>\n

Ansa McAl is the company that had built a multi-million-dollar Arch which was donated to the APNU\/AFC Administration, subsequently erected on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Highway.<\/p>\n

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Image: \u00a0Pixabay (Pexels)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2026as Secret Cabinet memo surfaces Despite pronouncements that government breached the laws of Guyana to award a $605M drug contract to one of its corporate supporters, the Administration has once…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3042,"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":[138,116,139,153,146,125,155],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-drugsmedicine","tag-guyana","tag-healthcaremedical","tag-legal","tag-procedures","tag-public-procurement","tag-sole-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/document-agreement-documents-sign-Pixabay-Pexels.jpeg?fit=1280%2C851&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-Qs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3251,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/secret-cabinet-missive-exposes-another-drug-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3252,"position":0},"title":"Secret Cabinet missive exposes another drug scandal","author":"Project Calls","date":"September 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2026as Govt bypasses Tender Board to handpick ANSA McAL for $515M purchase Despite pronouncements that Government breached the laws of Guyana to award a $605 million drug contract to one of its corporate supporters, the Administration has again sidelined the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) to once again\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News\/Developments"","block_context":{"text":"News\/Developments","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/category\/newsdevelopments\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Confiential-folder-michael_swan-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Confiential-folder-michael_swan-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Confiential-folder-michael_swan-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Confiential-folder-michael_swan-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16753,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/procurement-commission-could-be-seriously-affected-by-pac-gridlock\/","url_meta":{"origin":3252,"position":1},"title":"Procurement commission could be seriously affected by PAC gridlock","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"May 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The reluctance of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair, Mr David Patterson, to step down from that position, or end the gridlock, is putting at risk the continued employment of staff at the PPC (Public Procurement Commission) whose contracts are coming to an end. 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