Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

Dodoma (2 sites ) 10
Singida (2 sites) 11
Bulwark security 2
Alliance day and Night 1
Panic system 1
Alliance day and
Night
2
Real security 3
During the process of selection of successful winners for
each lot the tender board at its meeting held on 13 th
August, 2007 directed the concerned department to
conduct the vetting of best three in each lot for further
decision. The vetting report conducted by the department
of security and its report signed by Chief Security Manager,
recommended a reversal of recommendations made by the
evaluation team, and recommended otherwise based on
own criteria of evaluation and Aliance Day and Night
Security Guard Limited of BOX 305 Tabora was awarded to
render security service for Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Tabora,
Dodoma, Mwanga, Same, Tarakea, Hai, Everest Chinese
restaurant, Nzega, rest house from 31/10/2007 to
31/10/2009.
However, the justification for vetting and awarding such
many lots to one private security company instead of the
ones recommended by evaluation committee could not be
made available. As far as the procurement process is
concerned and interference of the procurement process by
Security department could not be ascertained. The fund
vetting recommendation implies a gross violation of
procurement Act and regulations which attracts
investigation the respective authorities to ascertain
whether there were fair play in procurement process.
It was further noted that bid document submitted by
Alliance Security did not comply with the format of a
standard tender document issued by the PPRA casting
doubt as to how the company competed and won this
tender and the security company ended up
underperforming in some areas assigned to it. We are of
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