Green Vision International Gambia Ltd., is a real estate agency and residential estate developer. The company specialises on residential property developments such as apartment sales and financed housing construction among construction contracts.
Modou Jaiteh, the managing director and Bujah Janneh, director of Finance at Green Vision International Ltd. were the two witnesses who appeared before the commission.
Green Vision International Ltd. was contracted by Basse Area Council to build a Bridge at Baja Kunda.
Testifying before the LGCI, Mr Jaiteh said their company saw the advertisement in the newspapers and “we contacted the Basse Area Council and then we were told that we needed to buy the bidding document via a bank payment at Vista Bank, former FIB. We bought all five lots bid with each for D5000,” he disclosed.
“The day we bought the document, they took us for a site visit, and after that, we went back to prepare the bidding document and submitted it within two weeks,” he said.
“I think the bid opening took place in May and in June we were awarded the contract for lot one. I don’t know the actual duration but it did not take long.”
Janneh told the Commission that the council sent them a letter informing that they were awarded lot one but no letter was sent to them about the remaining four they had bided for.
He said at the time they were submitting their bid to Basse Area Council, they had already registered with GPPA and their 2021 registration was renewed.
He said the bid security was not specified as there was no specific amount. He added that it was stated that they had to prepare a bank statement, stating that when they were awarded the contract, they should be able to provide performance bond and security bond by a bank, “That was all. They did not ask us to provide a bid security amount.”
Janneh said when they were informed about the contract award, the Council took them to meet the Baja Kunda community, and from there, they went to the Council and signed the contract.
The witness further revealed that the advanced payments for the contract were 40 percent, 30 percent, 25 percent and 5 percent respectively.
“The first advanced payment was One Million Five Hundred and Seventy-one Thousand Three Hundred and Sixty-two Dalasi in July,” he revealed.
