After four years of rolling out successive infrastructure-heavy budgets, the Guyana Government is now scampering to put measures in place to deal with errant contractors.
The Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, has written to his ministerial colleagues to establish units within their respective ministries to deal with contractors who have swayed from their contractual obligations. The missive was sent on behalf of President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali.
“You are hereby advised to immediately make functional within your respective Ministries and Project Units, a unit to specifically and dedicatedly evaluate the execution of all contracts being undertaken in your respective sectors, in order to assess the performance of the contractors in the discharge of their contractual duties and obligations,” the missive said.
It also added that once unjustifiable delays, substandard works and other such fundamental breaches of contracts are observed, then clauses of the contracts dealing with notification of the contractor of the alleged breaches, and remedial provisions dealing with sanctions such as liquidated damages, forfeiture of securities and termination, among other things, should be immediately invoked and activated.
Guyana Standard understands that as part of this initiative and to support the work of these proposed units, a Contract Compliance Unit has been established at the AG’s Chambers.
The functions of this Unit will be to provide the relevant legal advice and appropriate guidance and actions when. requested, including, the filing of legal proceedings.
