A provision in the contract for the specialty hospital allows for government to employ a third party to complete the project in the event of fraudulent practices by the original contractor and it was under this clause that Fedders Lloyd was chosen to finish the project, AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan says.
Under pressure to defend a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fedders Lloyd for the specialty hospital, government officials have trotted out a variety of reasons for the selection of the company without a tender process with Ramjattan’s statement in the AFC’s column in yesterday’s Kaieteur News being the latest.
Initially, the Ministry of Finance said that government had approached Fedders Lloyd “in the interest of time,” to undertake the completion of the project. Subsequently, the Ministry said that Fedders Lloyd qualified to be selected by virtue of the firm having been one of the
