{"id":1281,"date":"2011-09-09T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2011-11-09T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T09:44:25","slug":"bn-leaders-question-penang%e2%80%99s-open-tender-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/bn-leaders-question-penang%e2%80%99s-open-tender-system\/","title":{"rendered":"BN leaders Question Penang\u2019s Open Tender System"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Penang MCA Women Wing chief Tan Cheng Liang open questioning of why the Penang state Irrigation and Drainage Department\u2019s projects were not awarded to Chinese contractors came under fire from Komtar ADUN Ng Wei Aik.<\/div>\n
\u201cBN leaders are constantly harping on racial sentiments, with UMNO accusing the Penang PR state government of sidelining the Malays, while MCA accuses of discriminating against the Chinese,\u201d he said<\/div>\n
\u201cSuch tactics proves that the BN leaders are running out of ideas that they have to resort to play with such despicable racial sentiments. However the people are no longer fooled by their forked-tongue speeches.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSince PR took over the Penang state government, we have announced that all state government projects not exceeding RM 200,000 will be opened to F class contractors via open tender. F class contractors consist of Bumiputera contractors,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
As for projects exceeding RM 200,000 they are open to all Malaysians regardless of race or religion in open tender bidding. \u201cThis policy has been accepted by all Bumiputeras. Yet MCA didn\u2019t say a thing about it,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
\u201cNow Tan has questioned on the relevance of awarding the department\u2019s 243 projects to F-class contractors. Is she suggesting that the F-class contractors\u2019 designation be abolished?\u201d<\/div>\n
Ng says that MCA should voice her suggestion to the MCA party president or ministers in the government\u2019s cabinet and not make baseless accusations against the Penang state government for practising open tender systems and taking care of the F-class contractors who are not as well-capitalised.<\/div>\n
The Malay Contractors Association of Malaysia\u2019s (PKMM) Penang branch has come out to defend the state\u2019s open tender system as fair and warned Penang MCA to stop politicising contracts awarded to Bumiputeras there.<\/div>\n
Acting Penang PKMM chief Datuk Izham Merican condemned Penang MCA\u2019s \u201cignorance\u201d for failing to understand that open tenders allowed the state government to select the best and most competitively priced contractors, regardless of race.<\/div>\n
\u201cBy only questioning contracts awarded to Malays, is MCA being racist towards the abilities of Malay contractors whom they regard as less competent than other contractors?\u201d Izham said in a press statement. -The Rocket<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Penang MCA Women Wing chief Tan Cheng Liang open questioning of why the Penang state Irrigation and Drainage Department\u2019s projects were not awarded to Chinese contractors came under fire from Komtar ADUN Ng Wei Aik. \u201cBN leaders are constantly harping on racial sentiments, with UMNO accusing the Penang PR state government of sidelining the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,215,77,68,12,78],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-community","tag-bn","tag-economy","tag-malay","tag-mca","tag-penang","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}