Tan Sri Zaini said during his tenure as PWD Director-General (1999-2005), less than 5% of the total value of projects handled by PWD were given out on a direct negotiation basis (ie Design-Built-Turnkey contract-DBT).Hi JKR, was it true? Or, have we forgotten that Daim Zainuddin had placed almost all the DBT contracts directly under the EPU and Finance Ministry of which the DBT contracts were approved by the EPU and placed directly under the Project-Management Consultants (PMCs) and supervised by each ministry. The schools and computer lab projects were under PMC-Education Ministry's control (school hostels privatisation projects, new schools and universities all were placed under PMCs too), the army and police projects were under the PMC-Defence Ministry's control, the hospital projects were also under PMCs-Ministry of Health control, etc, etc.
But all these contracts were under PWD's co-ordination and implementation units. PWD vetted the design and approved the designs. Oh, we may also have forgotten the privatisation of highways and expressways.
Many of the 9th Malaysian Plan Projects have been awarded by open tender... that's what the headline said. What a load of bullshit. Please publish the list for the public to be convinced by that statement. So far, as I had known, that's not the truth. Except for the class F projects, the others are mostly DBT-negotiated contracts.
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until the vampires suck the country dry and send the country into economic tailspin, the majority of the citizens will continue their usual daily lives not wanting to upset the apple cart. Once the country slides into economic poverty and hit them where it hurts most which is their pockets, then only will they wake up. only then they will realise those who profess integrity and fear of god are actually wolves in sheeps clothing.
The practice of placing projects directly under PMCs theoretically accountable to each Ministry was a disaster. Many of these projects were shoddily built, incompetently managed. The individual ministries either didn't have the know-how or the interest or both to supervise the projects properly.
What the hell does the Health Ministry know about civil engineering project management ? They should stick to medicine.
There were many, many problem projects. Only the most prominent failures, e.g. the schools computer labs disaster, the Navy Pularek disaster, which couldn't be swept under the carpet appeared in the newspapers.
Congratulations! You have done your homework well but it's only the tip of the ice-berg. Go on...dig more on the Health Ministry!! The Tourism Ministry (Visit Malaysia year). Land Ministry? You have a long way to go, my friend.
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