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Works Minister Robert Morgan
Works Minister Robert Morgan has defended the selection process for a contractor for the SPARK road programme, insisting that it was above board.
Opposition Spokesman on Labour Wavell Hinds, speaking at a PNP Divisional Conference Meeting on the weekend, blasted the government over what he termed the sidelining of Jamaican contractors on road repair programmes.
Mr Hinds cited the SPARK programme, in which he charged that the government has favoured Chinese contractors for the multi billion dollar programme.
But Mr Morgan, responding Tuesday in the House of Representatives, declared that the comments were unfounded as there is an established selection process for choosing contractors.
"The SPARK programme was a publicly tendered project, internationally tendered, that was open to every single qualified contractor in Jamaica and anywhere in the world," arising from which he said "several contractors applied, including contractors associated with local contractors, some of our biggest."
Coming out of that process, he said China Harbour Engineering Company secured the contract, noting that that the selection went through the government's procurement process "from the committee at the National Works Agency to the Public Procurement Commission; It is not populated by politicians."
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