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The following have been endorsed by the National Contracts Commission during September 2004 for award, under the provision of Section 23D(1)(b) of the Contractor-General Act. This notice of the endorsements is not confirmation of the actual awards. Government of Jamaica procurement contracts are awarded by the Ministries or Agencies of Government. Please contact the responsible Ministry or Agency for confirmation of details of these.

DATE	GOVERNMENT AGENCY	CONTRACT DESCRIPTION	CONTRACTOR	CONTRACT VALUE J$ (unless otherwise stated)
08.09.04	Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited	Insurance Placement 2005/2006/2007 – Insurance coverage for fleet and other property	Guardian Insurance Brokers	$145,309,781.00
08.09.04	Ministry of National Security	Variation – addition Acquisition of motor vehicles for the Jamaica Constabulary Force	Toyota Jamaica Limited	$20,000,000.00
08.09.04	Ministry of National Security	Sole Source – 100 Honda Motor Cycles for the Jamaica Constabulary Force	Motor Bike Sales and Services Limited	$65,000,000.00
22.09.04	University Hospital of the West Indies	Janitorial Services	Milestone Environmental Limited	$103,130,262.00
22.09.04	National Housing Trust	Bernard Lodge Sugar Housing Construction project, Hartland, St. Catherine (civil infrastructure works)	M & M Jamaica Limited	$101,527,162.00
29 .09.04	Jamaica Social Investment Fund	Boscobel Primary School Expansion	Garan-Tee Construction Company Limited	$ 4,764,998.40
29.09.04	Jamaica Social Investment Fund	Boys Town Basic School Rehabilitation and Expansion	P & N Distributors & Construction Ltd.	$ 5,820,942.00
29.09.04	Jamaica Social Investment Fund	Joyland Basic School Construction	Garan-Tee Construction Company Limited	$ 4,148,783.15
29.09.04	Jamaica Social Investment Fund	Wood Hall Basic School Construction	P & N Distributors & Construction Ltd.	$ 7,419,865.50
29.09.04	HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Policy Project	Procurement of Anti-retroviral Drugs	LASCO Distributors Ltd. (Jamaica)	$ 14,996,945.54 (US$245,163.10)
29.09.04	HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Policy Project	Procurement of Anti-retroviral Drugs	Abott Laboratories (Dominican Republic)	$ 13,679,419.73 (US$223,624.80)
29.09.04	HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Policy Project	Procurement of Anti-retroviral Drugs	Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. (India)	$ 11,009702.33 (US$179,981.50)
29.09.04	National Works Agency	Procurement of Gabions and wire -- IADB Flood Damage Project	A.S. Edwards and Associates Limited	$ 6,577,470.00
29.09.04	Ministry of Local Government, Community Development & Sport	PIDP/04/68: Rehabilitation of parochial roads in Portland – Stanton/Harcourt; Benjamin Hill; and Belle Castle	Construction Solutions Limited	$ 18,534.675.00
29.09.04	Ministry of Local Government, Community Development & Sport	PIDP/04/69: Rehabilitation of parochial roads in Portland – Rodney Hall; Shantalee	Asphalting Specialists Limited	$ 13,920,212.00
29.09.04	Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica	Sugar/Ethanol Study	J.P. Mukherji and Associates	US$190,000.00
29.09.04	National Water Commission (NWC)	Procurement and Installation of NWC’s Customer Information System (CIS)	Indus International (formerly SCT)	US$4,629,442.00
29.09.04	Factories Corporation of Jamaica Limited	Remodeling and Refurbishment of Factory Building No. 8 – Montego Bay Free Zone	KSA Engineering Consultants Limited	$25,875,000.00
29.09.04	National Works Agency	Sole source: Procurement of Asphalt Emulsion for Spray Patching Programme	Valley Slurry Seal Limited	US278,400.00

Contracts valued $15,000,000.00 and above are subject to approval by Cabinet.

Phone: 929-6460; 968-8061 (pvt)

e-mail: ahoofung@ocg.gov.jm

Date: October 14, 2004

Contact: Andrea Hoo Fung

Communications Officer

Office of the Contractor-General

17 Knutsford Boulevard

Kingston 5

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