The Malaysian PM is coming out to defend the contractor George Kent. In the newspaper report, it was said that..." the company was able to meet the criteria stipulated in the contract and offered the second lowest out of 8 bidders". It seem odd to the majority of the people, how could the company get the contract. Consider this...
a. The contract awarded is RM1.08billion.
b. George main business .. water meter and water infrastructure.
c. Size of the company...2011 total sale rm165million.
d. About Balfour Beatty --- 2011 total sale USD3.5billion
From freemalaysia site... "Copies of official documents given to the press showed that Najib had signed the approval to award the contract to Balfour Beatty Invensys Consortium, but he was later said to be keen on granting the project to George Kent consortium instead."
I am sure that there is a criteria and selection guides designed in the selection process. The selected company will then sign the contract. It had never been done that the ability to meet the contract is used to select a company. What happen if all 8 are able to meet the contract. Would you trust a person who has never build a single rail track to take the project.
If you want to build a house, not many people will give the project to a contractor who says.. "I have never build a house before..."
