Specialty Hospital project in limbo

The troubled Specialty Hospital project is now on hold as government’s handpicked contractor, Fedders Lloyd has been barred by India from participating in such contracts until 2020.

“Among other things, Fedders Lloyd Corporation Limited was not eligible to continue the project because it was debarred or disbarred by the World Bank from projects until 2020 due to its procurement policy,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday announced, at a post-Cabinet briefing, held at the Ministry of the Presidency.

Harmon told reporters that it was through correspondence from the Indian High Commission that government was advised that Fedders Lloyd had been barred until 2020 because of procurement violations. It was