{"id":37097,"date":"2024-11-11T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=37097"},"modified":"2024-11-11T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:05:52","slug":"reg-7-breached-procurement-act-in-awarding-22m-in-contracts-without-public-tendering-ag-report-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/reg-7-breached-procurement-act-in-awarding-22m-in-contracts-without-public-tendering-ag-report-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Reg. 7 breached Procurement Act in awarding $22M in contracts without public tendering \u2013 AG Report reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guyana<\/p>\n

The Regional Administration of Region Seven breached the Procurement Act of 2003 when it awarded $22 million in contracts without public tendering, the Auditor General\u2019s report of 2023 revealed.<\/a><\/p>\n

The contract awards surpassed the legal limit of $3million.<\/p>\n

According to the Auditor General, the regulations made under the Procurement Act 2003 \u2013 Amendment of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations, Item 2, stipulates that \u201cThe threshold foreseen in section 27(1) of the Act for use of the request for quotations method of procurement shall be $3,000,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, upon examination, the Audit Office discovered that the Regional Administration expended amounts totaling $22.969 million for the supply of dietary supplies for D.C Caesar Fox Secondary Dormitory through the processing of four Payment Vouchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Regional Democratic Council (RDC) breached the aforementioned regulations since the three-quote method of procurement was utilised. These purchases should have been publicly advertised and adjudicated by the Regional Tender Board due to the value exceeding the limit of $3M,\u201d the AG pointed out.<\/p>\n

Providing a breakdown of the $22 million purchases, the Audit Office detailed that the dietary supplies including flour, sugar, milk, blackeye peas, and butter among others were bought for $5,626,000.<\/p>\n

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Image credit:\u00a0 Marco Verch Professional Photographer (flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Guyana The Regional Administration of Region Seven breached the Procurement Act of 2003 when it awarded $22 million in contracts without public tendering, the Auditor General\u2019s report of 2023 revealed….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26459,"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":[250],"tags":[157,116,71,125],"class_list":["post-37097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-anti-corruption","tag-guyana","tag-procurement","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Corruption-money-fraudMarco-Verch-Professional-Photographer-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-9El","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20930,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/region-6-launches-probe-of-procurement-breaches\/","url_meta":{"origin":37097,"position":0},"title":"Region 6 launches probe of procurement breaches","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"February 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana \u00a0 Chairman of Region 6 (East Berbice \u2013 Corentyne) David Armogan says that an investigation has been launched following the findings of Auditor General Deodat Sharma concerning the award of $615.34 million in contracts. 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