A €300,000 monthly contract presented to a cleansing enterprise via direct order remains being renewed, and the government has failed to mention why.
X-Clean Ltd, an organization with a deal in Floriana, became the settlement for a cleansing carrier at St Vincent De Paul Residence in Luqa weeks after it became shaped in 2015; Times of Malta became informed.
When the contract expired more than two years ago, a new aggressive smooth was no longer issued. Instead, the authorities kept giving a month-to-month direct order to the same business enterprise, enterprise assets stated.
Times of Malta envisioned that the business enterprise would have already received more than €7 million in direct orders. It asked the authorities for details, such as how lengthy the exercise of renewal of the settlement has been in the region, but up to now, no information has been forthcoming. The resources indicated that this has been going on because, as a minimum, the center of 2016.
It could not be determined whether such a method is consistent with public procurement guidelines. However, a long-status Finance Ministry directive states that direct orders have to be “confined” in scope and limited to conditions of an emergency nature.
The Parliamentary Secretary for Active Aging, Anthony Agius Decelis, was asked why cleaning offerings contracts at the Luqa complex falling under his political wing had been given through an immediate order on a month-to-month basis; however, the questions remained unanswered at the time of writing.
The newspaper also asked when X-Clean Ltd had gained the unique smooth, how many offerings rendered value, and how many direct orders had been issued to the same business enterprise, however, to no avail.
Times of Malta is informed that the rates charged for the agency’s aid in making its offerings available are no longer similar to those quoted in its original bid. Efforts to gain feedback from the agency’s owners have been futile, and an agency spokesman did not return calls.
The Luqa home for older people has already been in the news for the past weeks after what turned into at the start intended to be a €60-million deal for the supply of food, and the building of a brand new kitchen became a €274-million 500-mattress extension offered to James Caterers and a subsidiary of the DB Group.
