Govt cancels plan to buy tablet PCs in G-to-G method
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The Cabinet Tuesday allowed the Information and Communications Technology to buy tablet computers from China, using a memorandum of understanding method instead of government-to-government method.
ICT minister Anudit Nakhonthap said the G-to-G procurement method had too many red-tape procedures so he asked the Cabinet to approve the procurement in an MoU method instead.
Anudit said the government will buy the tablet computers from Shenzhen Scope Scientific Development Co. Ltd, which will be certified by the Chinese government.
He said the drafting of purchasing contract would be done before the end of the month and the contract would be checked by the Office of Attorney General.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra confirmed that her Cabinet had approved the ICT Ministry’s request to make the purchase in MoU method instead of G-to-G method.
The Nation
