Maintaining that there were procurement breaches in its handpicking of the contractor for the US$34 million e-ID contract, former Minister of Public Communications Cathe-rine Hughes is urging the government to relook at the project, hold public consultations and have an open tender process.
“I endorse the former auditor general Mr Goolsarran who says the procurement laws have not been followed. One would start off with [calling for] Expressions of Interests (EOI), then a public tendering process that would involve NPTAB. I think the biggest insult really is that there has been no public discussion, no public information strategy to explain to people and citizens how this would work, and to alleviate their concerns and answer questions,” Hughes, an opposition MP, told the Stabroek News in an interview.
