‘Over $1 million paid to PWC without tender’ - Premier Smith
He was responding to questions by First District Representative Honourable Andrew A. Fahie who posed a question during the First Sitting of the Fourth Session of the Second House of Assembly today.
“Madam Speaker, would the Premier and Minister of Finance please tell this Honourable House, since taking office in November 2011, to date, what is the total amount of money paid to PriceWaterHouseCoopers by the Central Government and if each such hire involved competitive bidding and/or the tender process?” asked Hon Fahie.
“Thank you Madame Speaker. Madame Speaker since taking office in November 2011 the sum of $1,310,179 [was paid to PWC] who was eventually selected and awarded a contract. It was awarded based on the urgent services required for various projects of our statutory agencies,” said Premier Smith.
Giving a breakdown of the expenditure, he said that for a forensic audit of the Treasury under Central Government PWC was paid $319,072; he said for forensic audit implementation PWC was paid $409,200 and for the port project they were paid $504,260 and for advice regarding the airport expansion $277,646.
He said that while these answers were provided in the House of Assembly in June 2014, there is now an additional $177,700 spent on legal work regarding the airport expansion project.
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