Transparency International Pakistan on Friday wrote to the OGDCL chairman, asking him to investigate allegations of violation of Public Procurement Rules 2004 on procurement of multi-geo strings and spares worth more than Rs 93 million. According to the letter, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, Transparency International Pakistan received a complaint on September 25 from M/s C-Shine International on the allegation of violation of Public Procurement Rules 2004 in procurement of multi-geo phone strings and spares, tender enquiry Proc-Fe/Prop/Ecmp-410/2012 only from single source M/s Wahal Sunful Geophysical Exploration equipment company, China, through its local agents M/s IE Service, Islamabad.
Transparency International Pakistan requested the OGDCL to examine the complaint, and if it was correct, to rectify it. “When more than six international manufactures… were available and most of them had supplied multi-geo phone settings to the OGDCL in the past, why were open tenders not invited? “The procurement has been reported by another complaint to be of over Rs 93 million, then why the OGDCL has not followed rule no 12? All procurements opportunities over Rs 2 two million should be advertised on the authority’s website as well as in other print media or newspapers having wide circulation,” read the letter. Public Procurement Rules 2004 have eliminated all discretions in procurements process and venues of corrupt practices in tendering, by making the procedures transparent and comprises of inbuilt checks and balances, to eliminate manipulation in tender awards.
