Auditor General Deodat Sharma has directed that the Region Nine administration recover in excess of $12 million paid to a contractor for the upgrading of a section of the road at Culvert City, Central Rupununi.
According to the recently leaked 2018 Auditor General’s Report, a contract for the project was awarded by the Regional Tender Board in the sum of $13.105 million to the most responsive of eight bidders. Though the contractors received the full contract sum for completed works, at the time of audit a physical verification of the completed works, measurements and calculations revealed a significant overpayment of $12.262 million.
