Almost 100 weeding, cleaning contracts awarded

Nov 04, 2020 News

– 75% awarded to small contractors

Almost 100 weeding, cleaning contracts awarded

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works yesterday awarded close to 100 weeding and cleaning contracts for Regions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
According to a press release, 75% of the contracts were awarded to new bidders and the awarding of the contracts was done by Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar, and the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary (PS), Vladim Persaud.
The signing of the contracts was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. Present at the signing of the contracts was Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill. Minister Edghill said, “Don’t see yourselves as doing small jobs but see it as very important, do the work not just for the money but for the country.”
While addressing the contractors, Minister Indar said, “We reached a total of over 600 hundred bids and a total of 100 contractors were selected. Minister [Edghill] illustrated that each contractor is expected to employ on average a total of five persons that means, we will be providing employment for well over five hundred persons.”
In his speech, Minister Indar encouraged the awardees to do their job properly given that taxpayers’ money is being used to provide a service and that will be for the beautification of the communities within the regions.
He added that the Irfaan Ali administration is seeking to create employment and to put money into the hands of the small businesses. The Minster said, “We are in government to ensure that the procurement process is opened to all and because of this, we have deliberately not allowed big contractors to bid in this process.”
Meanwhile, PS Persaud said, “The Ministry expects that the works will be done in keeping with the standards, therefore, the contracting service must perform excellent[ly] to be recommended for future projects.” He highlighted that the contractors must take pride in doing their jobs since they work for the Government of Guyana and the people of Guyana.

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