{"id":4037,"date":"2018-01-10T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2018-01-09T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T23:50:37","slug":"nipdec-forced-to-release-bus-tender-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/nipdec-forced-to-release-bus-tender-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipdec forced to release bus tender info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Insurance Property Development Company Limited (Nipdec) has been ordered to disclose documents related to the tendering process for a contract to supply 35 buses to the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering a 17-page judgment in the Port-of-Spain High Court last week, Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell ruled that Nipdec could not prove it was exempt from disclosing the documents to Wescan Trinidad Agency, one of the companies that was unsuccessful in the tendering process.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Nipdec was engaged by PTSC to procure 100 CNG-powered and GPS-capable buses in three phases over five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2017-11-19\/nipdec-forced-release-bus-tender-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0 Usseek<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Insurance Property Development Company Limited (Nipdec) has been ordered to disclose documents related to the tendering process for a contract to supply 35 buses to the Public Transport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4090,"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":[169,113,170,137],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-logistics","tag-tenders","tag-transportation","tag-trinidad-and-tobago"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PTSC-Bus-Trinidad-usseek.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-137","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11314,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/trinidad-company-that-imported-tainted-eye-injections-awarded-new-tender\/","url_meta":{"origin":4037,"position":0},"title":"Trinidad company that imported tainted eye injections awarded new tender","author":"Michele Marius","date":"December 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Trinidad Guardian) The company that brought in the tainted eye injections that left seven patients blinded in one or both eyes was awarded over $15 million in tender awards by the Ministry of Health. 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