Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has written the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) calling upon it to undertake a comprehensive investigation of the award of a bridge consultancy contract with a view to instituting criminal charges against Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson.
Teixeira’s correspondence dated August 15, 2018 to SOCU Head Sydney James follows a finding by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) that Patterson’s Ministry of Public Infra-structure breached the country’s procurement law in the single-sourcing of a contract to Dutch firm LievenseCSO for a feasibility study for a new bridge over the Demerara River.
In her letter to James, Teixeira noted that on September 18, 2017, she wrote the PPC with regards to concerns that the procurement law had been violated through the award of the contract and sought an investigation.
