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St. Ann Municipal Corporation
Office of the Contractor General
November 2017
The Contract Award Process(es) Employed by the St. Ann Municipal Corporation
The OCG, in keeping with the scope of its Investigation and the allegations which were made, sought to
ascertain the contract award processes which are employed by the St. Ann Municipal Corporation in the
implementation of CDF projects for and on behalf of the Office of the Member of Parliament, South East, St.
Ann. In this regard, Mr. Alfred Graham, by way of his response of June 24, 2015, to an OCG requisition stated,
inter alia
, the following:
“
When funds for projects have been released to the Council by
the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Unit, Council will
subsequently receive further communication from the Office of
the Member of Parliament, indicating persons to be engaged for
work in relation to works that may carried out by direct
contracting
and in relation to Human and Social Development
Programme a list of beneficiaries would also be received from the
office of the Member of Parliament. When lists are received from
Office of the Member for Parliament for Works Programme,
these are referred to the Superintendent of Roads and Works of
the Council for implementation
…
With regard to Human and Social Development Programme,
responsibility for implementation is dependent on the specific
nature of the benefits. The Inspector of
[the]
Poor is generally
responsible for implementation of these programmes while there
are occasions where the Director of Finance may be responsible…
When
recommendations
for
implementation
of
projects/programmes are received from the Office of the Member
of Parliament, once they are within the scope/purpose of the
approved project documents received from the CDF Unit, they are