CBNC awarded contract to install border management, ePassport systems

–$37.8M for construction of Wararamadong Secondary

CANADIAN Bank Note Company Limited has been awarded a US$12.4M contract for the procurement of new ‘Border Management Systems and ePassports, Director-General of the Ministry of Presidency, Joseph Harmon disclosed on Friday.

At the time, he was addressing reporters at the post-Cabinet press briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency. “Before, passports were produced on a manual basis… the ePassport system allows you to provide information electronically, and that information will go to the Department of Citizenship where these passports can be produced,” Harmon told reporters.

While not going into the details because of security reasons, the director-general said the new ‘Border Management Systems and e Passports’ will be linked to an international system of border protection and border security.

“This is part of an international process in which all of the passports internationally are produced electronically,” he posited. This project is being funded by government.

Meanwhile, Trevor David Construction was awarded $37.8M for the construction of the Wararamadong Secondary School. A contract in the sum of $16.8M was also awarded for repairs to be carried out at the New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) under the Ministry of Education. The contract was awarded to the institute itself.

In the mining sector, a contract in the sum of $93.2M was awarded to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) for the construction of a Warden’s Quarters and Office Building at Aranka and Omai in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).

Meanwhile, under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, $143.4M was awarded to A &S General Contractors Inc. for the construction of rip rap sea defences between the villages of Prospect and BroomHall, East Coast Demerara, in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice).

In the health sector, a $28.9M contract was awarded to M&P Investment for the extension of the Maternity Ward – South Block – of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). A contract was also awarded to Total Solutions for the procurement and installation of an elevator system within the Maternity Department of the GPHC. That contract was awarded at a cost of $33.6M.

Works at the Port Kaituma Hospital Complex will be completed by International Import & Supplies, which was awarded a contract in the sum of $279.9M.
Over at the New Amsterdam Hospital, a mortuary will be constructed to the tune of $69.8M. That contract was awarded to Andre Vincente Construction Services.

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