The controversy which PAP town councils and the PAP-owned Action Information Management (AIM) had caused earlier this year may have subsided. However, part two seems to have started. PAP town councils are now calling for a new tender as AIM's contract is set to end on 30 April.
The bizarre thing here is that AIM had helped prepare the tender specifications for the IT system. PAP refused to comment on whether AIM will continue as its service provider and the latter is keeping mum over its decision to submit a tender.
In this case, AIM would be handed with an advantage in the tender since it already has knowledge of what it's all about. Other companies, which have to spend more time preparing, will find it highly unfair. AIM might also alter certain details of the tender specifications to benefit itself.
I reckon that in order not to cause any allegations and anymore controversies, AIM should stay out of this tender. Plus, if none of the companies who participated in the tender were successful, AIM should not have its contract automatically reviewed.
It is interesting to see what the men in white have to say about this latest saga.
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