Cabinet gives no-objection to contracts for several infrastructural projects
Dr. Roger Luncheon
Dr. Roger Luncheon

HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon, yesterday disclosed that several projects for infrastructural works in different sectors have received Cabinet’s no-objection.Speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet news conference, which was held at the Office of the President, he outlined details of five of the projects, which include:
* A $421.9M contract for upgrades to roads and access bridges from Parika to Ruby, East Bank Essequibo, has been approved;
* A $141M contract for the procurement of vehicles and other hardware for Community Policing Groups (CPGs) across the country;
* A $57.4M contract for the supply and installation of three 625-KVA generators at Shelter Belt, Vlissengen Road; and
* A $445.5M contract for the supply of 1,818,440 litres of 60-70 bitumen for the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB).
Contracts above the $15M mark are taken to Cabinet for its no-objection.
Section 54 deals with Cabinet’s involvement in reviewing the award of procurement contracts and the phasing out of its functions with the establishment of a Public Procurement Commission (PPC), in the interest of decentralising the procurement process.
Currently, the procurement process is decentralised at the level of ministries, regions, district tender boards and the Ministry of Finance’s tender board.

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