Haier Electrical Appliances Limited, a Chinese company put in the best bid out of the top three bidders for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme, Finance Minister Ashni Singh today announced.
Minister Singh was addressing reporters at a post-Cabinet Press briefing hosted by Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon.
He said that the government had reopened the bidding process to encourage wider participation after only three bids were received. He said that for this re-tender eleven tenders were received.
Singh stated that three bidders with the highest ranked tenders were recommended by the Evaluation Unit to the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board. He said that the best bidder was an International One – Haier Electrical Appliances Limited of China. A sample of the laptop was produced for the media to see.
Meanwhile Dr. Luncheon later interrupted saying that cabinet had granted its no objection to the award of US$7.5 million for the project.
The project was initially launched in January, when 142 computers were ceremonially handed over to students from
