Cabinet green-lights request for new District Tender Boards

CABINET on Tuesday approved a request by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development to create District Tender Boards (DTB) in the country’s ten administrative regions, Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon informed yesterday. Luncheon was at the time addressing his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President in Georgetown.

Seventeen boards were created, and according to Luncheon, these would occupy the lowest teir in the country’s procurement architecture – that is, ranging from the highest level (National Procurement and Tender Administration Board) to the DTBs, with the ministerial departmental and the regional tender boards in between.

“They all have prescribed limits within which they are competent to make awards. These limits are gazetted and for the newly-created 17 boards at the district level, those limits would see the $100,000 to $249,999 for the procurement of goods and services. The boards would competently deal with procurement of goods and services within that range. Anything above would have to go to the regional, if it exceeds their limit, to the national.
“Similarly, for civil work construction, the limit at the level of the district boards would be from as low as $100,000 to $599,999. Within that range, the district boards are statutorily empowered to consider and make awards. And the last category is consulting services, again from as low as $100,000 to $399,999. That’s the range for the procurement of consulting services,” Dr Luncheon informed.
Written By Telesha Ramnarine

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