A total of approximately $85 million in supplementary funding was approved last evening by the National Assembly for the Public Procurement Commission and the Public Service Appellate Tribunal.
Among the supplementary funding requests in Financial Paper No. 2 was for some $54,173,070 under current expenditure to provide for the chairperson, deputy chairperson, three commissioners, assistant accountant, auditor, engineer, IT specialist, and a procurement specialist for the Public Procurement Commission for the months of August to December, 2017.
It was also related that the sum caters for other costs, such as rent, security, telephone, electricity, water, materials, equipment and supplies, fuel, local travel and subsistence, vehicle spares, janitorial and cleaning supplies, equipment maintenance and cleaning and extermination and training for the months of August to December.
