Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has denied allegations that he approved a $1.7 million single-source procurement contract for the Ministry of Finance.
“My attention has been drawn to yet another baseless and misleading claim circulating about an alleged $1.7 million single-source procurement contract approved by me. This claim is completely false and should be disregarded,” he stated in a Facebook post.
Similarly, the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) has distanced itself from the claims, clarifying that it has not granted any such approval.
“It has come to the attention of the PPA that a letter circulating on social media purports to grant single-source approvals to the Ministry of Finance for the engagement of Ostec Limited in respect of the implementation of Middleware and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with data warehouse.
“The Authority would like to clarify that it has not granted any such approvals. We therefore entreat the general public to ignore the said letters in circulation,” the PPA stated.
