Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says the Ministry of Education, the national tender board and Cabinet all failed in their duty to the public by not acting to stop Kares Engineering Inc from securing a $566.9m North Ruimveldt Secondary School contract considering its previous poor performance on an even larger project.
In his accountability column in today’s Stabroek News, Goolsarran said that after the Evaluation Committee of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) had concluded its work and recommended Kares, the procuring agency – the Ministry of Education had an obligation to take account of Kares’ disastrous work on the $728m Kato Secondary School project of 2012.
