20 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

A purchase this size the government should by buying direct not using a middle man unless he is related.

Something very smelly about the whole deal. A purchase of this value should at least have included a visit by a representative of the buyer, to China to observe work done there and a visit to Malaysia to confirm work done there. Standard procedure for contracts of significant value. Why was this not done?

On 08/02/2017 at 3:58 PM, Srikcir said:

No middleman was used. State-owned BMTA wrote the specs and contract documents, ran the bid auction and made the award. That's not to say there was opportunity for officials to "take a piece of the action."

I can count at least 4 avenues for funds to be stolen, when you add in the provision for service/repair, etc into the overall picture of this boondoggle. Call them agent, middlemen or whatever the attempt appears to have been made to steal several busloads of public funds,

. This is almost a copycat of the scanners procurement/agent/middleman which were put in place at ''swampy'' several years ago. In fact some of the same people may be involved, behind the scene or its planning. If the winning bid for the buses was awarded with tax included it raises the question who introduced the Malaysia involvment into the travel, build, assemble, etc,of the units and who approved it

On 2/9/2017 at 7:25 AM, kennw said:

Something very smelly about the whole deal. A purchase of this value should at least have included a visit by a representative of the buyer, to China to observe work done there and a visit to Malaysia to confirm work done there. Standard procedure for contracts of significant value. Why was this not done?

Was there any mentioned that there were no visits? But why would the Customs dept be a party of the visits?

They have evidence they were made in China?

Have bits fallen off already?

The BMTA also has a problem as they stated they had commenced installing the gps's in a few 100 of the buses and would now arrange to remove the gps's and reject them.

 

By taking possession they may have removed their option to reject.