Government yesterday staunchly defended the evaluation process for the first tender for the supply of computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project and said that Giftland OfficeMax was disqualified because it submitted a “counterfeit” Lenovo computer sample.

However, President of Giftland Roy Beepat, when contacted, denied this and said that he had submitted to Cabinet certificates indicating that his company had dealt directly with Lenovo in China.

“I don’t want to say that Giftland supplies to the Guyanese public counterfeit goods. I don’t want to say that. But from what we have seen from Lenovo, the laptop that…..