About 937 local contractors have participated in an open bidding for the construction and renovation of public schools and other facilities recently advertised by the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB).
The bid, conducted in the presence of the contractors, the media and government officials, followed Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s directive about government contracts adhering to public procurement process for transparency and accountability.
Director Human Resource and Administration of KWSUBEB, Gloria Adebisi, said the bids were for years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 FGN-UBEC-SUBEB’s infrastructural renewal and educational development projects.
Kwara last accessed UBEC funds in 2013. The AbdulRazaq administration paid an outstanding debt of N450m and another counterpart funds of N7.1bn to get Kwara back to the good book of UBEC after years of official backlist.
Others are geo-physical survey and drilling of boreholes with overhead tanks, post COVID-19 hand washing equipment and sanitisers, basic sports development items, basic agricultural development items, conversion/refurbishment of one classroom to digital literacy centre with equipment and polymer groundwork.
Adebisi applauded Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for his bold steps on the payment of seven billion naira outstanding state counterpart funds which had been long overdue.
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