A 10-year contract signed by the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) led-government of former President George Manneh Weah and Medtech Scientific Liberia Limited has been characterized by gross violations of the Public Procurement and Concession Commission (PPCC) and Public Financial Management (PFM) Laws of Liberia, leading to the unofficial...
Capitol Hill — A 10-year contract signed by the Coalition for Democratic Change led-government of former President George Manneh Weah and Medtech Scientific Liberia Limited has been characterized by gross violations of the Public Procurement and Concession Commission and Public Financial Management Laws of Liberia , leading to the unofficial diversion of the country's share of funds being collected under the agreement.
The Senators' action to launch a probe and review the contracts stemmed from two separate communications from the Committees on Public Accounts and Commerce and industry signed by Amara Konneh, Alex Tyler, Dabah Varpilah, Jonathan Sogbie, Edwin Snowe, Nathaniel McGill, Crayton Duncan, Abraham Darius Dillon and Albert Chie of Gbarpolu, Bomi, Grand Cape Mount, River Gee, Margibi, Sinoe, Montserrado and Grand Kru respectively.
It maintained that there was also no evidence of a Public Private Partnership Concession Certificate as stipulated in Section 88 of the PPC Act. It stated that evidence of evaluation of bids by predetermined published criteria and submission of bid evaluation report selected MedTech Scientific Limited as the most responsive bidder, meeting Sections 112, 113, 114 & 115 of the PPCC Act was not established.
It disclosed that the MedTech Scientific Limited contract is well above the US$10 million threshold and subject to the granting of investment incentives . Contrary to Section 9 of the Contract and the MOU, the committee disclosed that the LRA instructed MedTech Scientific Limited, in a letter dated February 2, 2022, signed by the former Commissioner-General to open a separate bank to manage the GOL's 20 percent revenue on its behalf to fund LRA's capacity building activities outside of established GOL public financial management framework.
However, the committee stated that MedTech Scientific Dubai is a foreign company, and it is stated in the contract that they would utilize a local Special Purpose Vehicle , MedTech Scientific Liberia Ltd, as operator of the contract in Liberia.
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