Cabinet has approved over $1B in contracts for developmental projects across the country following their meeting earlier this week, Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman has said.
Trotman was at the time speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday held at the Ministry of the Presidency.According to the Minister $235,117,630 was approved for the construction of Mahdia community roads in Region 8 — from Campbell Town to the primary school and the Cenotaph to Dormitory Road.
The contract was awarded to Technocon Investment Procurement and General Contracting Solutions. In the same region, $302,310,531 was approved for a road from the hospital roundabout to Campbell Town main access into Mahdia roundabout to government quarters. This contract was awarded to J R Ranch Inc.
$52,102,500 was approved for the construction of rip-rap river defence at Crane Garden, Leguan. The contract was awarded to General contractors Inc.
The sum of $20,272,500 was awarded for the procurement of sixty drums of foam concentrate for the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and this contract was awarded to Industrial Safety Supplies Inc.
For the supply, installation and testing of Secondary Competency Certificate Programme (SCCP) of the Ministry of Education, one of the contract was awarded to Hardware Depot at the sum of $5,207,400 and the sum of $15,281,600 was awarded to South Caribbean Distributors’. Two contractors benefitted from this arrangement.
For the purchase & installation of furniture for the University of Guyana, the sum of US$833,257,000 was awarded to Waldner Laboreinrichtungen GMBH & cokg (Germany) which secured that contract. A contract within that same arrangement was also awarded to Cedi Europe (Netherlands) for the sum of US$1,141,844.
$35,078,768 was approved for the supply and delivery of computers and accessories and the networking of laboratories under the Ministry of Education. The contract was awarded to NT Computeac.
For the procurement of dialysis fluids for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, the NEW GPC was awarded the contract which is fixed at $34,708,654.
Seeram Civil Engineering & Woodworking Establishment was given the green light for a $45,637,840 contract for the construction of a storage bond for pesticide and toxic chemicals board at Mon Repos for the Ministry of Agriculture. This contract saw an increase of $3,200,104, Trotman said.
ROAD WORKS
For the provision of consultancy services for the design and construction of access roads including; Parika paved road – Public road – Naamryck cross dam, Region 3; Ruby paved road – Public Road – Ruby Parika cross dam to Parika primary school, also in Region 3; Laluni all-weather road – Kuru Kururu – Laluni farmlands, Region 4; and Onverwagt all-weather road, Region 5, the contract was awarded to SRKN Engineering and increase from an initial $128,838,909, to 163,427,194; an increase of $34,588,285.
H Nauth & Sons was awarded $15,918,360 for the construction of a tail regulator at Buxton East sideline.
For the operation and security of NDIA mobile & fixed pumps in Regions 2, 3 and 4 (extension), a contract of $53,802,000 was awarded to General Engineering Supplies & Services. There was an increase of $14,640,000.
Cabinet gave its no-objection for the supply of labour and materials for the installation of pipelines and service connections at Hill Foot – Linden/Soesdyke Highway, Region 10. The $16,224,915 contract was awarded to Million Mountain Engineering.
Some $17,751,500 was awarded to Million Mountain Engineering for the supply of materials and labour for the installation of pipelines across Wismar/McKenzie Bridge, Region 10.
For the provision of security services at E-government LGE sites at the Ministry of the Presidency, $74,867,328 was awarded to NM Security Solutions. This recorded a $24,955,776 increase. Additionally, the sum of $10,304,698 was awarded to Amazon Security & Investigations Services for another dimension of the project.
The green light was given for the reconstruction and resurfacing on the National Park tarmac which is being undertaken by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). The $18,753,000 work will be undertaken by the Public Infrastructure Ministry. (Ravin Singh)