Contractors association seeking to create more openings for small operators

The newly established General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) will be exploring means through which smaller contractors can have more ready access to state contracts for jobs that fall within their operating capacity, founder member of the organization, Neil Cort-Rogers has told Stabroek Business.

He declined to disclose the precise strategies the newly formed association plans to use to narrow the gap, but said that part of the focus would be on lobbying to ensure that small contractors secure more access to government contracts “assuming that they have the capacity to deliver.”

The advent of the GCAG comes in the wake of concerns that have been expressed by a number of local contractors over what they