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July 25, 2013 Dear Sir, I refer to your article titled “Firing architect cost taxpayers over $4m”. Hmmm. There is something fishy here! Apparently, the Lois Browne-Evans Building cost $105 million ($79 million plus $26 million overrun according to th...

July 24, 2013 Dear Sir, Please allow me to comment on your headline “Firing architect cost you $4 million”. The former Government terminated Canadian firm Carruthers, Shaw and Partners, and employed Conyers and Associates to oversee the building of T...

Former Premier Ewart Brown has endorsed a call by former Royal Gazette Editor Bill Zuill for an independent, public inquiry into “tendering and contracts”. In a press release, Dr Brown said that he supported Mr Zuill’s call — made in an editorial on ...

A Government Minister has pushed through a construction project bid that was 28 percent more than a Civil Service-recommended bid — and after the Minister herself had presented that lower and fully vetted bid to Cabinet, recommending it for approval....

Government awarded almost $19 million worth of contracts in August. The biggest spender was the Ministry of Public Works which tendered and awarded $13,862,572 worth of contracts in August, the largest of which is a $12.9 million contract for a steam...

Three local vendors have won Government’s tyre contract in a move saving taxpayers $170,000, Premier Paula Cox revealed yesterday. The Procurement Office reached out to companies who may have been unaware that the contract had been put out to tender,...

Government estimates that its new financial information management system could make $2.7 million in costs savings over a five-year period. The new upgrade from the old JD Edwards World software to the EnterpriseOne (E1) version, which is currently b...

GlobalHue will no longer be the Department of Tourism's advertising agency, Minister Patrice Minors announced today. She revealed at a press conference that the agency did not bid to extend their contract, which ends April 1. The Minister declined to...