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ACB identified
procurement flaws in the two-year $73.9 million generators leasing
agreement between
Aggreko Power Solutions and the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi lEscom).
ACB director of
investigation. Daniels
Mponda told Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament that preliminary findings show that there are a number of procurement flaws that occurred and they need to be investigated further.
"We have done a considerable amount of investigation on the $73.9 million two-year leasing agreement on gen-sets." he told the committee.
In March this year, the ACB opened an investigation into the procurement of the multi-billion kwacha contract on the generators which happened in 2017.
The probe followed action by the Office of the Director of Public Procurement (ODPP) which stopped Escom from awarding a contract to supply 78 megawatts (MW> diese I-powered generators to Aggreko because of procurement irregularities.
But in lanuary this year. President Peter Mutharika commissioned 55MW diesel-powered generators in Blantyre that Escom-using a single sourcing procurement method-hired from Aggreko, the same company whose contract the ODPP had earlier barred.
In its findings, the ODPP faulted the evaluation process, saying it was not property concluded and ordered the cancellation of the awarding of the contract to Aggreko and asked Escom to restart the procurement process.
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