The Education Ministry invited seven pre-selected local firms to supply primary and secondary-level textbooks, prompting a surprise bid by the Trinidad and Tobago-based Royards Publishing Company, which holds the copyright for many of the books.
The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) opened bids for the supply and delivery of textbooks for “Primary and Secondary Textbooks” for the ministry, which called for “All text and workbook (sic) must be done to a similar likeness of the original” and identified “printing presses, scanners, bindery… etc.”
