The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that the decision to award GLICO Life Assurance Company Ltd. the contract to provide Employees’ Group Comprehensive Insurance Plan to the staff of GRA was carried out in strict compliance with procedures under the Procurement law.
In a statement issued in Accra and signed by the Commissioner General George Blankson in reaction to media reports of a shady deal between the GRA and GLICO life it said: any claim that the award of the contract to GLICO Life Assurance Company Ltd. was shady is therefore not only a deliberate attempt to malign GRA and its management, but it is also most regrettable.
The material facts of the matter are as follows:
GRA as per a letter dated 3rd September, 2012 No.CG/GRA/PPA/08 to the Chief Executive, Public Procurement Authority (PPA) requested approval to engage the services of an insurance company for the provision of Employees’ Group Comprehensive Insurance Plan based on the restricted tendering method.
A letter from the Chief Executive of the PPA dated 13th September, 2012 No.PPA/CEO/1689/12 to the Commissioner-General of GRA granted approval for permission to use the Restricted Tendering method to invite the underlisted companies to tender for the procurement of the services of an Insurance Company for the provision of Employees’ Group Comprehensive Plan for GRA:
i) Star Life Assurance Company Ltd
ii) Enterprise Life Assurance Company Ltd
iii) Ghana Union Assurance Life Company Ltd
iv) GLICO Life Assurance Company Ltd
On 11th October, 2012 the four companies were issued with the Request For Proposal (RFP) documents which they completed and submitted as per the terms of the tendering process. A three-member committee was then composed in-house to evaluate the technical proposals.
On 7th February, 2013, GRA per letter no.GRA/CGO/02/13 submitted the evaluation report for the technical proposal to the Chairman, Central Tender Review Board at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for review and acceptance of the recommendations for the technical proposal.
On 22nd February, 2013 the Central Tender Review Board per letter no.CTRB/GRA/M.163/2013 concurrently approved the recommendations for the technical evaluation report and for GRA to proceed to open the Financial Proposals for the project.
A four-member committee was composed to evaluate the financial proposals, after which the combined report (technical and financial) and recommendations were sent on 20th March, 2013 to the Chairman, Central Tender Review Board at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for review and concurrent approval.
At its 166th sitting on Thursday, 4th April, 2013, the Central Tender Review Board reviewed and was satisfied with the report and in a letter to the GRA granted concurrent approval for the award of the contract to Messrs GLICO Life Insurance Ltd. to provide the Employees’ Group Comprehensive Insurance Plan for GRA. The approval letter from the Central Tender Review Board to the Commissioner-General of GRA was referenced No.CTRB/GRA.2/M.166/APP/2013 and dated 5 April 2013.
It is clear, therefore, that the GRA left no stone unturned in its bid to ensure that, every step of the way, the procedures and processes in the Procurement Law were complied with in the selection and award of contract for Employees’ Group Comprehensive Insurance Plan for GRA, it ended.
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