Insight - Let’s fix the public procurement system


Lee Heng Guie: Public procurement, which involves large sums of spending money, is highly vulnerable to procurement fraud and corruption. Among the types of procurement fraud are conflict of interest, bid-rigging, and awarding contracts to unqualified contractors and rent seekers and cronies.

THE news flow that a syndicate has monopolised government projects through tenders/quotations worth more than RM3.8bil since 2014 until now is mind-boggling.

The failings uncovered in the public procurement system may be the “tip of the iceberg” and calls for the government to expedite public procurement reforms.

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