{"id":6601,"date":"2018-08-27T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:05:49","slug":"fahie-promises-enhanced-contract-issuing-laws-under-vip-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/fahie-promises-enhanced-contract-issuing-laws-under-vip-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahie promises enhanced contract-issuing laws under VIP gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A law that will ensure more transparency in the way government contracts are administered might become implemented if the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) is elected as the next BVI government.<\/p>\n<p>VIP Chairman and opposition leader Andrew Fahie is branding that law as the Contractor General legislation.<\/p>\n<p>He said this legislation would \u2018mirror\u2019 the Recovery and Development Agency\u2019s (RDA) mandate and \u2018enhance\u2019 the BVI\/UK Protocols of Effective Financial Management agreement, which says: \u201cAll projects must be subjected to a tendering and procurement process that guarantees the highest level of transparency and fairness practicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he wants to implement a Contractor General law because of post-hurricane reports that government had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bvinews.com\/new\/protocol-breach-govt-skips-bidding-process-for-ferry-dock-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued contracts without conducting the required tendering process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been singing for the last seven years \u2013 police ourselves or someone is going to police us in a manner that we all don\u2019t like,\u201d said Fahie on Wednesday during what he said was the first of a series of meetings he will hold as opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p>Fahie said the Contractor General legislation will \u2018prove to the world that the BVI can police itself when the RDA fulfils its mandate\u00a0and is dissolved in the\u00a0next\u00a0five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/bvinews.com\/new\/fahie-promises-enhanced-contract-issuing-laws-under-vip-govt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0\u00a0freestocks.org (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A law that will ensure more transparency in the way government contracts are administered might become implemented if the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) is elected as the next BVI government&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3003,"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":[75,146,125],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-british-virgin-islands","tag-procedures","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Shelf-of-Legal-Books-freestocks.org-Pexels.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1It","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19882,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/house-considers-procurement-bill\/","url_meta":{"origin":6601,"position":0},"title":"House considers procurement bill","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"December 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"British Virgin Islands A proposed new procurement law is designed to promote international commerce while ensuring that the government\u2019s contractor selection process is transparent and fair to Virgin Islands businesses, according to Premier Andrew Fahie. 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