"The Constitution Drafting Assembly's sub-committee on charter production yesterday pointed a finger at two officials attached to the parliament secretariat over alleged malpractice in the 285-million-baht project to produce 20 million copies of the draft charter. . .
The CDA had specifically instructed that the ToR [terms of reference] and the contracts must stipulate that the state-owned printing houses selected to print the copies must not sub-contract the work to private firms.
Mr Siva said the CDA's original intention was to reserve the charter printing work for state-owned printing houses through a special procurement method. But that objective now seems to have been twisted, with private firms offered a slice of the budget.
Mr Siva's comment came after news reports suggested that eight out of the nine state-owned printing houses made gains of at least 10 million baht from the production of 20 million copies of the charter. They were contracted by the parliament secretariat to print 20 million copies of the charter at 14.25 baht apiece.
However, they sub-contracted the job to privately-run printing houses at different prices. The price differences ranged from 1.41 to 2.25 baht per copy. . .
''The committee drew up the draft ToR for the country's interest but two officials dropped it without informing us. We learned about this from someone else,'' he said. He said the two officials explained that ''they forgot'' to inform the sub-committee of the revised ToR."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/20Jul2007_news01.php
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SNAFU over printing of constitution
Started by Sexpat, Jul 20 2007 09:42 AM
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Posted 20 July 2007 - 01:51 PM
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He said the two officials explained that ''they forgot'' to inform the sub-committee of the revised ToR."
Needess to say, if this kind of monkey business had occurred in the old Thaksin government, people would immediately wonder how many Thaksin family members/cronies got the sub-contracts to do the print job. The only thing that seems to have changed, post-coup, is the names of the favored cronies.
Habit is a hard thing to break. The fact that it's business returning to usual this quickly is depressing, but hardly surprising.
