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OCG issues order for oversight panel to submit reports
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
THE Office of the Contractor General (OCG) yesterday issued a statutory requisition to the recently established Government Independent Oversight Panel (IOP) for three major projects, requiring that the panel routinely submit to him formal written reports outlining the particulars of all of its deliberations and communications.
The IOP has also been required to regularly furnish the OCG, in arrears, copies of all the reports which it will submit to the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing and the Cabinet.
"The IOP has been further mandated to advise the OCG how it will discharge its assigned functions, and how and in what manner it proposes to liaise with, and secure, the required approvals of the ministry's permanent secretary, who, by law and by virtue of the provisions of the Financial Administration and Audit (FAA) Act, is the accounting officer for all Government contract awards and expenditures which fall within the purview of the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing," a release from the OCG said yesterday .
The establishment of the IOP was announced in Parliament on April 24 by Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies to oversee contract negotiations, award and/or implementation processes to be associated with three major multimillion-dollar investment projects — the North-South Link of Highway 2000, the Gordon Cay Container Trans-shipment Hub, and the Fort Augusta Container Terminal.
The OCG's Requisition, dated May 14, was issued directly to Professor Gordon Shirley, R Danny Williams, and Everton McDonald, the designated members of the IOP.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1uxO2QfEa
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
THE Office of the Contractor General (OCG) yesterday issued a statutory requisition to the recently established Government Independent Oversight Panel (IOP) for three major projects, requiring that the panel routinely submit to him formal written reports outlining the particulars of all of its deliberations and communications.
The IOP has also been required to regularly furnish the OCG, in arrears, copies of all the reports which it will submit to the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing and the Cabinet.
"The IOP has been further mandated to advise the OCG how it will discharge its assigned functions, and how and in what manner it proposes to liaise with, and secure, the required approvals of the ministry's permanent secretary, who, by law and by virtue of the provisions of the Financial Administration and Audit (FAA) Act, is the accounting officer for all Government contract awards and expenditures which fall within the purview of the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing," a release from the OCG said yesterday .
The establishment of the IOP was announced in Parliament on April 24 by Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies to oversee contract negotiations, award and/or implementation processes to be associated with three major multimillion-dollar investment projects — the North-South Link of Highway 2000, the Gordon Cay Container Trans-shipment Hub, and the Fort Augusta Container Terminal.
The OCG's Requisition, dated May 14, was issued directly to Professor Gordon Shirley, R Danny Williams, and Everton McDonald, the designated members of the IOP.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1uxO2QfEa
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