SANDAKAN: Sabah Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries will publicly announce its various open tender projects worth more than RM160 million next year.
Its minister Datuk Junz Wong said this way none of the local contractors would be overlooked, adding that many had “missed out” on advertisements of previous open tender projects.
Wong went on to say that tender for the RM40 million Sungai Anip Flood Mitigation Project would be open to all contractors on Jan 15.
“Priority will be given to Sabah contractors to upgrade the three-kilometre long river.
“We have received many complaints from locals about their homes being hit by flash floods whenever it rains,” he told reporters here.
Wong also said that unlike the previous government’s practice, he would only announce a project and open it for tender when there was sufficient allocation.
He explained that the previous government’s way of announcing a project and opening it for tender without proper allocation had resulted in many projects either moving slowly or were being abandoned. – Bernama
