“How can a spare-parts supplier who cannot even get that job right, get a contract to design, build and equip a specialty hospital? It is mind boggling”- AFC MP Trevor WilliamsThe Alliance For Change (AFC) has blasted the Government’s decision to award a US$18M contract to Surendra Engineering Corporation, and says it reeks of corruption.AFC MP Trevor WilliamsThis notion was expressed by AFC Member of Parliament Trevor Williams at the party’s weekly press briefing yesterday.Fedders Lloyd Corporation Ltd of India, the lowest bidder for the contract to build the country’s specialty hospital, was passed over in favour of Surendra Engineering, in a bidding process that was dogged with uncertainty about what exactly is being constructed.Williams said it is disgusting that once again the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government can engage a company with no experience for the award of a multi-million-dollar contract.Making a comparison and reference to Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall and the road contract for the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, Williams said it seems the government has a propensity for awarding billion-dollar contracts to companies with no related experience in the field.Underscoring that the company in question, Surendra Engineering,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys 2018, has a track record of failure and bad engineering, Williams said it is also important to note that Surendra Engineering has been black-listed by GuySuCo, for providing defective equipment for the Enmore Sugar Factory. In addition, he said,Wholesale Jerseys, a Commission of Inquiry into the death of a GuySuCo employee found that negligence by Surendra Engineering contributed to the incident.Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited, built the US$12.5 million Enmore Packaging Plant, and also had a US$4 million contract for the supply of 14 drainage pumps for use by the Ministry of Agriculture.“There are many questions hanging over this ‘relationship’ between the PPPC government and Surendra Engineering. How can a spare-parts supplier who cannot even get that job right, get a contract to design, build and equip a specialty hospital? It is mind-boggling,” the AFC parliamentarian questioned.Adding that while financing of the project will be provided by the EXIM Bank of India,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Williams said Guyanese, “need to take note of the shenanigans of the PPP/C government as at the end of the day,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, it is the Guyanese taxpayer who will have to repay the loan”.He pointed out that the AFC will be looking to discuss the issue with the Indian High Commission in Guyana.When questions were raised of a conflict of interest on the part of lawyer for Fedders-Lloyd, Khemraj Ramjattan, AFC chairman Nigel Hughes noted that personalities should not be dwelled on since the issue and the facts must be looked at.“Where is the conflict? There is nothing stopping Mr. Ramjattan from representing any company, since the fact is that there has been a breach of the public tender documents. Government invited people to tender for this project…if his client is awarded the contract I would assume and hope that it is after a very transparent process of retendering where every person who has been invited to tender submits, and the process of evaluation of those tenders is transparent. If his client is successful it means that his client has fulfilled the criteria by the tender board,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and that is not a reflection of Mr. Ramjattan, he is only an advocate on behalf of the company,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China,” Hughes asserted.