OLPF bids going to tender tomorrow
CABINET, following a series of engagements with bidders and an extended group of stakeholders, has advised that the bids for laptops would go to tender tomorrow, Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon disclosed yesterday.
Speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet media briefing, at Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, he said the bids would be opened for evaluation on July 19.
The 90,000 laptop computers would be disbursed to the least fortunate Guyanese families, children and adults.
When the project was announced in January, President Bharrat Jagdeo said: “The laptop has to be earned…not that you have to pay for it but it has to be earned by effort and commitment.
“People who collect these laptops are not getting them free. You don’t have to pay for them but it requires commitment and effort and a promise to help others, once you learn.”
He added: “This is a national project. This is a project that allows you to help others too, inasmuch as you help yourselves. This is the Guyanese family working together to help each other.”
Explaining the rationale behind the scheme, he said he decided it would be one laptop per family, rather than per child.
“First, we can achieve greater connection between the classroom and the home. Secondly, we can get the parents much more involved in the work of the children in a very interactive way. Thirdly, it enhances educational access and information available to the entire family.
“They can access information and communicate with people across the world using this method,” President Jagdeo stated.