Under pressure to defend a MoU with Fedders Lloyd for the Specialty Hospital, the Ministry of Finance on November 28 stated that the company was the second best bidder and this is why it was approached, however the evaluation report obtained by Stabroek News shows that company was disqualified from the process.
When the contract was controversially awarded in 2012 under the PPP/C administration to Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited (SECL), it had been stated by various government officials that Fedders Lloyd’s bid had not been considered as it was unresponsive. Despite this publicly stated position, the APNU+AFC’s Ministry of Finance in its statement on November 28 sought to justify the MOU with Fedders Lloyd on the grounds that it was the number two bidder and that the procurement legislation permitted recourse to such a bidder in the event of failure surrounding the first-ranked bidder.
The tender evaluation report however said that only two bids were responsive:
