PPP City Councilors wants Public Procurement probe of parking meter contracts

In the letter, the Councilors complained that the contract was signed without any of the councilors being properly briefed or even seeing the contract.

PPP City Councilors wants Public Procurement probe of parking meter contracts

As the Georgetown City Council prepares to renegotiate that controversial parking meter contract with Smart City Solutions, the People’s Progressive Party members on the Georgetown City Council have written to the Public Procurement Commission on the issue.

In the letter, the Councilors complained that the contract was signed without any of the councilors being properly briefed or even seeing the contract.

They pointed out that the 49 year contract was sole-sourced and there was no evidence of it ever being put to a public tender.

They complained that the contract was only reexamined after citizens started to protest and it has since been suspended.

The PPP wants to know If the national interest was safeguarded when the parking meter contract was signed, and if the Officers and personnel who signed the contract, acted in accordance with the rules and regulations as it relates to procurement of a contract of this magnitude and cost.

They want the Public Procurement Commission to address the issue, to definitively conclude whether the agreement was done in a fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective manner.

The Opposition,People’s Progressive Party, has also been writing the Public Procurement Commission on several other contract issues related to the government.

 

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