SUBEB warns contractors against poor jobs

Contractors bidding for various projects under the State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) in Bauchi have been forewarned that projects not rendered or poorly executed by any successful bidder will not be paid for by the Board.

The Board also warned that no contractor is allowed to sell or sublet contracts awarded to them without written agreement from the
Board.

The warning was handed down by the executive Chairman of the Board, Professor Yahya Ibraheem Yero, while declaring open, the ceremony for the pre-qualification for 2016 FGN-UBEC/BASG SUBEB intervention Projects in Bauchi.

Yaro explained that the board’s evaluation committee shall evaluate all the bids, while the Board’s Tender’s Committee and due process will analyze all the bids submitted and if all necessary formalities are completed, the execution of the contract will commence in February
2018.

He urged them as part of their corporate social responsibility to ensure that they plant ten trees and fix the National Flag in the schools; and assured them that all the laid down procedures will be strictly followed in the evaluation, short listing and selection
process, promising that the short listing and selection processes would be carried out with all the fairness it deserved.

A total number of 2632 bidders have submitted bid documents to the Bauchi
State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) for pre-qualification to be awarded contracts in various primary schools across the State.

They are expected if successful, to construct new classrooms, complete
comprehensive renovation, construct fences and VIP toilets drill boreholes, landscape as well as produce pupils and teachers’ furniture.

The Director Planning Research and statistics of the Board, Abubakar Abdu, in his remark, commended Governor Mohammed Abubakar for the
release One billion, forty two million, twenty seven
thousand Naira and two kobo as 2016 counterpart fund.

The director, who said the occasion was organised to avail the bidders with the new approach to the 2016 intervention project and to confirm that their profiles are intact, expressed optimism that competent contractors will emerge at the end of the exercise.

From Samuel Luka, Bauchi