Multi-million dollar contracts for repairs to two buildings in Region Nine were executed by two contractors who did not secure the awards during the bidding process, Auditor General Deodat Sharma has found.
The first contract pertained to repairs to a section of the Aishalton Hospital building, while the other dealt with repairs to the Potarinau Primary School. In each case, Sharma found that the highest bidder awarded the contract never did any of the work. Rather, other contractors did.
Sharma included these findings in the 2017 Auditor General’s (AG) report, which was recently presented to the National Assembly. Discrepancies with these two contractors were discovered during an examination of the money spent on maintenance works from January 1 to December 31, 2017.
