A senior Public Servant with knowledge of the procedures associated with the allocation of state contracts has been speaking with the Stabroek Business about what he says are the “possible pitfalls” in government simply awarding contracts for various types of state-funded public works as a means of what he described as efforts to create “ethnic balance” in the allocation of such state contracts.
“The problem is that it almost certainly goes high up,” the Public Sector official said, alluding to what he described as “the challenges associated with eradicating the ‘doctoring’ of tenders.” “We may well be in for many more ugly, even catastrophic experiences if we cannot remove the cancer,” the source told the Stabroek Business.
