DDL lodges juice bid complaint

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has filed a formal protest against their loss of a bid to supply boxed juices for the national school feeding programme which went to Surinamese company, Rudisa. “There was a statement that government released which basically said that aggrieved parties should use the stipulated channels to protest so the company has decided to do that,” Public Relations consultant for DDL, Alex Graham told Stabroek News yesterday. “We have written the letter to the Bid Protest Committee and will exercise that avenue and we will withhold a public statement until the process is completed,” he added, while pointing out that the company is following the section in the Procurement Act that speaks to protesting an award. The contract that DDL is protesting is an award that went to the Suriname company Caribbean International Distributors Inc, a subsidiary of Rudisa, for the supply and distribution of boxed juices for national distribution, under the Ministry of Education’s National School Feeding Programme.