Fresh details show that senior officials in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) allegedly ignored specifications for food and non-food relief items which had been provided by the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and the market survey report.
Documents available to us show that though the officials had earlier included the specifications in the bid documents issued to contractors, they didn’t include the same specifications in the Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) and commitment letters which they gave to the successful contractors leading to the supply of substandard relief items.
contractors supplied the relief items, the officials didn’t follow up to ascertain what had been given until inspectors from the UNBS found out that the items were substandard.
The then acting head of Procurement and Disposal Unit, Ms Agnes Katembeko, confirmed to Monitor in an interview on Friday that there were specifications in the bid documents and not in the LPOs.
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