{"id":6392,"date":"2018-08-02T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2018-08-02T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:16:28","slug":"tendering-process-bypassed-by-last-government-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/tendering-process-bypassed-by-last-government-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"TENDERING PROCESS BYPASSED BY LAST GOVERNMENT: MARSHALL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several high priced projects executed under the last Government did not go to tender as was required.<\/p>\n

This revelation came yesterday in the House of Assembly during the debate on the Integrity in Public Life Bill. Piloting the debate on the promised and much anticipated Bill yesterday, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall maintained that to prevent a repeat of such, since coming to office just over six weeks ago, they have been \u201cdrilling into the minds\u201d of the new Cabinet Ministers that the Financial Management and Audit Rules must be followed. Further, he disclosed they have had \u201cfull dialogue\u201d with the Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Department, to ensure that there is an understanding going forward, that Barbados intends to follow Financial Management and Audit Rules, which he explained requires a public tendering process for any contract worth more than $200,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also have to insist that the rules for Government procurement are followed and are transparent because if the rules of Government procurement are followed and are transparent then the entire process of offering a Government contract will be done under the light of day and under the bright sunshine of transparency there is little opportunity for corrupt practices to grow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General raised the issues, as he told the Lower House that under the previous administration a contract worth almost $20 million was awarded for the construction of high rise housing units at Valery, St. Michael without going to tender. He added that a similar situation occurred with respect to other units including those at Exmouth Gap, St. Michael.<\/p>\n

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Several high priced projects executed under the last Government did not go to tender as was required. This revelation came yesterday in the House of Assembly during the debate on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6397,"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":[129,125,113],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-barbados","tag-public-procurement","tag-tenders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Barbados-Flag-sbj04769-Pixabay.jpg?fit=1024%2C662&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1F6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6590,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/marshall-tendering-process-could-go-regional\/","url_meta":{"origin":6392,"position":0},"title":"Marshall: Tendering process could go regional","author":"Michele Marius","date":"August 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of Government\u2019s procurement of goods and services could be tendered regionally. 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