THE NEW GPC Inc. has said that the story which appeared in the March 18 edition of Kaieteur News headlined “$1B drug contract awarded 3 days before 2015 elections… New GPC fails to deliver – Ministry of Public Health” is erroneous.

The company in a release said the news item is a word for word reprint of an identical story carried by the newspaper on May 12, 2015, under the headline, “US$12.8M drug contract to NEW GPC.”

The company noted that the only addition is the claim that NEW GPC did not deliver any of the pharmaceuticals which it had won the bids to supply.

“NEW GPC would like to make it pellucid that it has supplied all drugs for all its contracts with the Government for 2015, including all rollover contracts. The delivery notes and other necessary documents are available as proof of this statement and available for inspection. The Auditor General’s Office, which would have conducted their audit during 2016, can attest to the veracity of this statement,” it noted.

The release also noted that the $400 million contract for drugs to the Georgetown Hospital as reported in another section of the media that was supposed to have been awarded to NEWGPC for emergency supplies for 2017 is also not true.

The NEW GPC had obtained an order for $20 million of medical supplies in 2017, which were already delivered, the company claimed.

“We do not know if this was an ‘emergency’,” it said.