DEFENCE WORKS
COMPETITIVE TENDERS Wellington, This De The system of payment for defen construction works was reviewed by I W. Sullivan (National. Bay of Plenl in the House of Representatives on S; urday. He suggested that wherev possible the work should be lender for on a competitive basis. Contractors, he explained, were a: ed to work on a schedule basis, b after the work was completed, the I partment did not want to pay out fu because it was discovered that t schedule was too high. He knew tl in his own district the cost of th< works had been 15 to 20 per ce . higher than would have been the Ci 1 under ordinary competitive tenderin The Minister of Supply (Mr Su! van); There is also a clause that pi i vides for revision. Mr W. Sullivan said that, even afl contractors had submitted a tender, t Department had insisted on ihc sch< ule method This was not the way , do business and the regulations for < fence construction ought to he sen ped. because nobody could understa them and union secretaries could not terpret their moan;i;:--
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 4
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