DEAR EDITOR,
In Sunday’s Chronicle, we saw a tender under the Ministry of Education’s Guyana Improving Teacher Education Project (GITEP) project for the supply of laptops.In the qualification details it was stated that the applicants must have supplied a minimum of 200 Laptops as a single supply to a Government Ministry within the last two years.
We would be grateful to know;
1- How many companies have supplied this amount of Laptops as a single purchase during the last two years? Are there more than one or two?
2 – Are these tenders being made solely for those companies? In which case, why tender and not request direct quotes from the said suppliers?
3 – If this is the criteria, why would one go about becoming a supplier for laptops to Government agencies if you have not made that single sale?
We have tried without success to have these questions answered and would appreciate response from Government on this. Interested businessmen