The company that wins the bid to supply the computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme is expected to deliver the first batch of instruments sixty days from the date of the contract signing, which suggests that the proposed October roll out for the project may be unrealistic.
The retender for the supply of instruments for the OLPF programme was published on the government procurement website last Saturday and the deadline for the submission of bids is August 2. At a press conference days before the retender was launched, Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir, who has ministerial oversight for the project, said that government was looking to launch the project in October. However, stipulations in the bid documents and general procedural processes suggest that this may not be feasible.
A source in the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) had told Stabroek News that after the bids are opened, they are
