While the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has found that the procurement laws were broken in the award of $632 million in contracts for the emergency supply of pharmaceuticals, the government recently approved a $515.1 million payment to supplier ANSA McAL for fulfilling its contract.
At an Alliance For Change (AFC) press conference yesterday, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan and Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson both confirmed that the payment was brought to Cabinet’s attention for noting.
The $515, 178,268 represented payment for pharmaceutical drugs already delivered by the company.
“It was initially $605 million. We received
