Pump MIA, hundred of millions already paid in FULL.

This happened in 2011 when Robert Persaud was the Minister.

Indian company in US$4M deal to provide pumps

Officials of the India-based, Surendra Engineering (at left) yesterday signing a deal with the Ministry of Agriculture to provide Guyana with 14 large capacity pumps. Third from right is Minister Robert Persaud.

Guyana has signed US$4M ($800M) agreement with India-based, Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited, for the supply of 14 large capacity drainage pumps. According to the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday, the project under a special line of credit from the Indian Government, would be one of the largest boost to the country’s resources to help face the growing threat of flooding, to especially the coastlands. Together with the assets of the Guyana Sugar Corporation, the country will now boast a capacity of almost 100 pumps, inclusive of both fixed and mobile. According to Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), Lionel Wordsworth, the contract is for the supply of eight fix pumps with the remaining six being mobile ones.

Three years after the PUMPS MIA - Missing in Action and everybody shut their mouth.

Luncheon “unsure”whether Surendra pumps are in Guyana

  Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon has disclosed that he is unsure about whether government has received the 14 pumps from Surendra Engineering, let alone its location in the city. This he declared yesterday at a press conference held at the Office of the President.

Dr. Roger Luncheon

In light of the recent flooding, Dr. Luncheon explained that Cabinet met on Monday last and the issue was discussed. He told members of the media corps that there was a recorded 84 millimeters of rainfall over the past few days. “Another round of flooding induced despair among city residents and dwellers. The extreme weather patterns are now unavoidable. This is part of the reality of climate change. .the City Hall and drainage is not a problem that is unknown to us, and we have the more recent example of the multi stakeholders’ intervention in the December 2013 rains that similarly affected the city. In cabinet’s discussion, interventions along these lines pointed to an appropriate direction on the way forward,” the Cabinet Secretary explained. He added, “Cabinet feels that the situation now calls for more aggressive thinking on the part of stakeholders from the start…also innovative thinking; thinking that brought us the Hope drainage canal. There is a need for a study and for proposed solutions to the defects that are constantly being trumpeted and uncovered in the current drainage of the city. The financing mechanisms and implementation on work planned would be weighty matters and would need mature considerations by all stakeholders. Cabinet’s contention, putting everything aside, is that the time is now.” After his presentation, Dr. Luncheon was then asked about the 14 pumps from Surendra Engineering which were procured for a reported US$4M. In previous reports with the Secretary; some of those pumps were expected to be in Guyana in December of last year. However, before he could even pronounce further on the location of the pumps in the country, he firmly asserted that he could not say whether the pumps have indeed been received as yet. In addition to this, Luncheon in an added comment said, “Even if we did all the work, it would not have averted what happened to citizens in Georgetown, hence my stress on innovative thinking. Even if we were to clean all the canals running east to west, we would have to remove those squatters from those areas and that entails removing 40 years of debris… And we would not see so much flooding. It would be reduced. But such a project requires lots of money.” Nevertheless, Luncheon later stressed that, “We just have to put someone that can think of flood control.”

Contractor out of India gets mining concession…enjoys privileged position with Govt

*gets US$12.5M for sugar packaging plant but never built one before *gets US$4M drainage pumps contract but never built any before *gets US$19M contract for Specialty Hospital, never built one *blacklisted by GuySuCo for supplying poor quality parts

Over 25,000 acres of lands in the gold bush has been granted to an Indian contractor and a Parliamentary party is now raising questions. The company, Indian-owned Surendra Mines Guyana Inc., was granted two Prospecting Licences (PLs) in early March, one year after applying for the licences.

AFC’s Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

The company is linked to Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited, the same company that built the US$12.5M sugar packaging plant at Enmore, East Coast Demerara. The two companies share the same directors. The company was later awarded another contract to supply large drainage pumps to the tune of US$4M. Surendra also won a US$19M contract to build a specialty hospital at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara. The Prospecting Licences for the lands which are located in North West District, Region One, led the Alliance For Change (AFC) to believe that the company is a “privileged” one. “There is no doubt in my mind that Surendra Engineering is now part of the PPP’s circle of family, friends and favourites. That company will get whatever it wants, tendered or untendered, because it is so close to the former President (Bharrat Jagdeo) and former Minister of Agriculture (Robert Persaud),” AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan said last evening. Ramjattan, whose party has seven seats in the National Assembly and together with A Partnership For National Unity (APNU), has a one-seat voting majority, said that indications are that Surendra never built a packaging plant, yet it won a contract worth US$12.5M. “This was under Robert Persaud’s stewardship as the Agriculture Minister to construct the Enmore packaging plant. Though huge problems persist with the operational functioning of that plant, Surendra was paid all its monies.” It will be recalled that when the project cost was challenged, Minister Persaud said that he would facilitate any value-for-money audit. The challenge was accepted by Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram. Immediately Persaud backpedalled. The value-for-money audit was never conducted, Ramjattan said. Ramjattan also noted that while evidence suggests that Surendra never built a specialty hospital, it won a contract worth US$19M to build one here. “It won even against Fedders Lloyd. Only in Guyana. It never built mobile nor vertical drainage and irrigation pumps, yet it won a contract for US$4M to provide a dozen or more pumps which were to have been delivered since eight months now. It won against the giant pump manufacturer Kirkloskar of India. No penalty. Rather, some generous extensions.”

Robert Persaud

The Parliamentarian said that Surendra was granted a number of other contracts to provide the Guyana Sugar Corporation with parts. “GuySuCo had to blacklist this company because the parts were not up to the endurance levels represented. Probably that is one reason why GuySuCo is where it is today.” With no indications that Surendra was ever involved in gold mining, the granting of the PLs raises even more questions over the company. “It never was in the mining of gold business, yet it gets prospecting licences. Marudi miners cannot even get a claim to work for their daily survival. Surendra has really struck gold here in Guyana.” Ramjattan also said that it is the same Minister Persaud who is now the Minister of Natural Resources, a new ministry, which has jurisdictions over mining concessions in Guyana. “The AFC will be asking certain questions concerning mining policy and administration in the Assembly. These developments it sees as being reeked with rottenness. The sultans and sahibs continue unchecked.” The demand for gold in recent years on the world market has driven prices up with the sector raking in the biggest earnings for Guyana last year. Along the way came the demand for lands to mine and the problems that came along with it. The Opposition, since the 2011 General Elections, has been waging a war against what it claims to be corruption in the administration.

Specialty hospital …  Surendra Engineering awarded contract

- lowest bidder skipped

Fedders Lloyd Corporation Ltd of India, the lowest bidder for the contract to build the country’s specialty hospital, was passed over in favour of Surendra Engineering, in a bidding process that was dogged with uncertainty about what exactly is being constructed. Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday announced that Cabinet has offered its “no objection” to the award of the contract to the value of $18.1 million. He did not announce the name of the bidder, but that amount was put in by Surendra Engineering Corporation, which built the $12.8 million Enmore Packaging Plant, and which also has a US$4 million contract for the supply of 14 drainage pumps for use by the Ministry of Agriculture. The lowest bid to construct the specialty hospital on Lower East Coast Demerara was put in by Fedders Lloyd, a US$500 million group in India. The company put in a bid of US$23.2 million with a 23 per cent discount. That put its final bid cost at US$17.6 million. Fedders Lloyd put in its bid in association with Nous Hospital Consultants, an Indian company which specializes in health care projects. In the bidding process, the Ministry of Health kept altering the original bid documents, making amendments several times. In fact, six days before the opening of bids, the Project Manager Naresh Mangar was still sending addenda to the original bid document. Further, while the hospital is being touted as a specialty hospital, the requirements also changed to accommodate a primary health care centre. And while the government has been touting that it wants to create a 150-bed hospital, in response to questions by Surendra, the Ministry of Health stated that bids would be evaluated “based on 100 beds.” The Ministry, in a response to Surendra seen by Kaieteur News, stated that “an expanded cost option of an additional 50 beds could be proposed by the bidders. The hospital is being funded with a line of credit from India of US$18 million. The government here intends to staff the hospital with specialists from India to do complicated surgeries, ranging from heart operations and organ transplants to cosmetic surgery. Preliminary works have begun at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara where the specialty hospital is intended to be built. The announcement for construction was made in February 2011 by former President Bharrat Jagdeo when he returned from India after securing a US$18M line of credit. Government had budgeted $150 million to commence the preparatory work. Cabinet awarded $97M to G. Bovell Construction Services in January 2012 to commence those works which included the construction of a fence, bridges and gateways. The other bidders for the project were Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Ltd (US$42.4 M); Jaguar Overseas Ltd of India (US$18.6 million) and Vydehi Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre of India (US$19.5 M).

PPP like skip lowest bid and award to their friends and family for a FEE.

PUT IT on the table in the corner.

Was the money deposited in Bank of Baroda in India???

Tell me!

Surendra got plenty surwah from the PPP/C at taxpayers' expense.

Just one more reason why a vote for the AFC or APNU is better than a vote for the PPP.

The PPP gravy train must be derailed next elections.

Because of their Product many Farmers are Happy.

The surwah was deposited in Bank of Baroda in the number account belonging to Rawbert the GOLD tief.

is there a happy farmer in guyana you need to take a trip to gt flood time which is most of the time

I was looking at the Flood in England.

no comparison these flood in England do not last long the people also have insurance for their lost the Guyanese is left to the mercy of god

I agree, so there is a very good opportunity for a Guyanese to start an Insurance company.

except the floods in Guyana are deemed an act of God.

Flood Insurance is flood insurance. It does not matter where the water comes from.

it was tout lots of time to the insurance company but they do not think it feasible most of all because of the poor infrastructure  there will always be floods 

Mouth in bate because pumps missing in action - MIA

Nehru, afraid to open his mouth on this thread.  NO ANSWER - pump get tief out.

Surendra Engineering pumps…NDIA CEO mum on number of drainage pumps in Guyana

Whether all 14 drainage pumps procured from Surendra Engineering are in Guyana remains a mystery, as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) refuses to confirm the contract status. Lionel Wordsworth, CEO of NDIA, during an interview with this publication, yesterday, refused to confirm if all 14 pumps were in Guyana and operational.

Agriculture Minister Leslie Ramsammy and Lionel Wordsworth, NDIA’s CEO

He however, referred all inquiries to Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Agriculture, who in November 2013 said that the pumps were here. But, one day later Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon refuted that and said some pumps were expected to arrive in Guyana in December 2013. All that Wordsworth was willing to disclose is that one of the pumps under the Surendra Engineering contract was operational at Rose Hall and civil works were ongoing at Canal Polder and Skeldon to facilitate the installation of pumps. He added that the preliminary stage of civil works is ongoing at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara and next week works will begin at Enterprise/Paradise drainage block on the East Coast of Demerara. However, Ramsammy in November last year had told Kaieteur News that the pumps are currently being installed at Patentia; Bagotstown; Number 19 in Berbice; Windsor Forest; Pine Grove; Mahaicony; East Coast Demerara, and Albion, Corentyne, Berbice. The Minister had said that one is being shipped to Lima on the Essequibo Coast. The Minister further indicated that pumps at Canje, Rose Hall, Bengal, Crabwood Creek, and Black Bush Polder have been completed and are working. Attempts to contact Ramsammy for an updated status on the pumps were futile. The procurement of the pumps has been a controversial issue ever since the government handed Surendra Engineering a US$4 million contract over two years ago. The pumps were bought through an Indian line of credit. Ramsammy had said that tenders for the project were opened in Guyana and in India, and two companies submitted bids in 2011. However, the contract only became operational in March 2012 and was expected to end one year later. It did not. Instead Government granted a one-month extension. When the Alliance For Change had threatened to cut allocations under the Ministry of Agriculture in the National Budget 2013, the Minister had said, of the 14 pumps, six pumps were delivered to the Government of Guyana and most of the parts of the remaining eight are already in the country. Emphasizing the unreasonableness of the cut, Ramsammy had said that the delivery of the pumps is not all that must occur. In the 2013 Budget, Government had catered for the construction of pump stations. These contracts have already been awarded and several of the pump stations are under construction. “I don’t know how we are going to build pump stations and then cut the funds for the pumps. Of course some of the money has already been paid in the 2012 budget. So I am utterly flabbergasted, disgusted and disappointed that such a critical project is being threatened,” he had declared. In yesterday’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle, Government had placed an advertisement for the invitation of bids for the provision of Engineering Designs for the constructions of drainage pump stations at Joppa No.43, Eversham, Gangaram in Region Six and Lima, Region Two. It was noted, “A firm will be selected under Quality Cost Based Selection Method and procedures described in this RFP, in accordance with the policies of the Government of Guyana (GOG) detailed in the Policies for Contracting of Consultants.” Bid documents will be available from February 17, 2014 and can be uplifted from the NDIA. According to Wordsworth, the advertisement is not linked to the drainage pumps from Surendra Engineering. However, the designs of the pump stations should be done to facilitate the different types of pumps used by NDIA, including the pumps from Surendra Engineering.

Surendra Engineering pumps…NDIA CEO mum on number of drainage pumps in Guyana

February 17, 2014 | By KNews | Filed Under News 

 

Whether all 14 drainage pumps procured from Surendra Engineering are in Guyana remains a mystery, as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) refuses to confirm the contract status. Lionel Wordsworth, CEO of NDIA, during an interview with this publication, yesterday, refused to confirm if all 14 pumps were in Guyana and operational.

Agriculture Minister Leslie Ramsammy and Lionel Wordsworth, NDIA’s CEO

He however, referred all inquiries to Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Agriculture, who in November 2013 said that the pumps were here. But, one day later Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon refuted that and said some pumps were expected to arrive in Guyana in December 2013. All that Wordsworth was willing to disclose is that one of the pumps under the Surendra Engineering contract was operational at Rose Hall and civil works were ongoing at Canal Polder and Skeldon to facilitate the installation of pumps. He added that the preliminary stage of civil works is ongoing at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara and next week works will begin at Enterprise/Paradise drainage block on the East Coast of Demerara. However, Ramsammy in November last year had told Kaieteur News that the pumps are currently being installed at Patentia; Bagotstown; Number 19 in Berbice; Windsor Forest; Pine Grove; Mahaicony; East Coast Demerara, and Albion, Corentyne, Berbice. The Minister had said that one is being shipped to Lima on the Essequibo Coast. The Minister further indicated that pumps at Canje, Rose Hall, Bengal, Crabwood Creek, and Black Bush Polder have been completed and are working. Attempts to contact Ramsammy for an updated status on the pumps were futile. The procurement of the pumps has been a controversial issue ever since the government handed Surendra Engineering a US$4 million contract over two years ago. The pumps were bought through an Indian line of credit. Ramsammy had said that tenders for the project were opened in Guyana and in India, and two companies submitted bids in 2011. However, the contract only became operational in March 2012 and was expected to end one year later. It did not. Instead Government granted a one-month extension. When the Alliance For Change had threatened to cut allocations under the Ministry of Agriculture in the National Budget 2013, the Minister had said, of the 14 pumps, six pumps were delivered to the Government of Guyana and most of the parts of the remaining eight are already in the country. Emphasizing the unreasonableness of the cut, Ramsammy had said that the delivery of the pumps is not all that must occur. In the 2013 Budget, Government had catered for the construction of pump stations. These contracts have already been awarded and several of the pump stations are under construction. “I don’t know how we are going to build pump stations and then cut the funds for the pumps. Of course some of the money has already been paid in the 2012 budget. So I am utterly flabbergasted, disgusted and disappointed that such a critical project is being threatened,” he had declared. In yesterday’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle, Government had placed an advertisement for the invitation of bids for the provision of Engineering Designs for the constructions of drainage pump stations at Joppa No.43, Eversham, Gangaram in Region Six and Lima, Region Two. It was noted, “A firm will be selected under Quality Cost Based Selection Method and procedures described in this RFP, in accordance with the policies of the Government of Guyana (GOG) detailed in the Policies for Contracting of Consultants.” Bid documents will be available from February 17, 2014 and can be uplifted from the NDIA. According to Wordsworth, the advertisement is not linked to the drainage pumps from Surendra Engineering. However, the designs of the pump stations should be done to facilitate the different types of pumps used by NDIA, including the pumps from Surendra Engineering.

This is another deal on which the PPP lied to the people.

They publish so many contradictions in their own newspapers that even the most uninformed reader must come to the conclusion that they are reading a tissue of lies.

Luncehon say one thing, the Minista seh a different thing, all sorts of confusion as the cover up the massive fraud on this project.

The PPP claim that they are searching for truth — BUT they themselves wanted to know where to find it. 

This is another deal on which the PPP lied to the people.

They publish so many contradictions in their own newspapers that even the most uninformed reader must come to the conclusion that they are reading a tissue of lies.

Luncehon say one thing, the Minista seh a different thing, all sorts of confusion as the cover up the massive fraud on this project.

The PPP claim that they are searching for truth — BUT they themselves wanted to know where to find it. 

I see Yugi Numbers and Conscience avoiding this thread.