Dear Editor,
Three years ago the government established a new procurement and tendering process nationally. Within the new financial authority each region had to establish a tender board and secure professional members to staff this board and also put together a team of professional evaluators. All of this was done and the system took off.
The programme had specified for a stipend to be paid to both members of the tender board and evaluators. To date the government has not honoured its obligation and has refused to pay this stipend for the past three years. The truth is the government has never paid a dime to the tender board or the evaluators.
I appeal to the government to honour this debt and pay the officials in the ten administrative regions. A number of tender board and evaluation officials have turned away from the process. The result is that the entire tender evaluation and award process could be seriously flawed.
Yours faithfully,
(name and address supplied)
