Companies to receive Mcast contract despite arraignment - Bartolo

Labour education spokesman Evarist Bartolo said today that the government was “encouraging abuse” by its decision to grant the MCAST IT courses outsourcing contract to two companies (among others) despite the police decision to arraign their representatives for allegedly making false declarations when they submitted their tender.

Mr Bartolo said the tender conditions had included a requirement that all training centres had to be accessible for persons with disability, but the premises of these two companies were not, and Mcast knew this, as did the police.

The outsourcing contract is to be awarded to all five companies which had submitted tenders following a ‘scandalous’ government decision, Mr Bartolo said.