{"id":3576,"date":"2017-11-08T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:35:39","slug":"jutc-boss-admits-pilot-project-couldve-been-put-to-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/jutc-boss-admits-pilot-project-couldve-been-put-to-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"JUTC BOSS ADMITS PILOT PROJECT COULD\u2019VE BEEN PUT TO TENDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Paul Abrahams, is admitting that it perhaps could\u2019ve put to tender a temporary arrangement with a private security company.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the JUTC outlined that it had an agreement with a company, Millennium Security Limited, to provide additional security services on a temporary pilot basis to protect spare parts which it said appeared to vanish from the company from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>That arrangement ended on September 20.<\/p>\n<p>The bus company made the disclosure in response to the Opposition who accused the JUTC of entering into a $50-million contract with MSL in breach of the government procurement guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The JUTC has denied that there\u2019s a current contract with Millennium Security.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Abrahams says the JUTC did engage MSL for a six-month pilot project which ended last month. He said in hindsight it perhaps should\u2019ve gone to tender.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/nationwideradiojm.com\/jutc-boss-admits-pilot-project-couldve-been-put-to-tender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0 Jamaica Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Paul Abrahams, is admitting that it perhaps could\u2019ve put to tender a temporary arrangement with a private security company. Yesterday the JUTC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3658,"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":[124,146,71,113],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-jamaica","tag-procedures","tag-procurement","tag-tenders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JUTC-Buses-Jamaica-Star.jpg?fit=2205%2C1460&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-VG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3577,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/jutc-probe-contractor-general-investigating-allegations-of-procurement-breach\/","url_meta":{"origin":3576,"position":0},"title":"JUTC Probe &#8211; Contractor General Investigating Allegations Of Procurement Breach","author":"Michele Marius","date":"November 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last four months, the Office of the Contractor General has been conducting a probe into the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited's (JUTC) engagement of Millennium Security Limited (MSL) to provide services to the state-owned bus company, Dirk Harrison revealed yesterday. 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