The Senate Committee on Sports has advised Infrastructure Regulatory Commission, Bureau for Public Procurement and the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, to settle their disagreement with System Numeric out of court.
The Senate Committee position was declared on Thursday after a troubleshooting meeting between the Senate Committee led by Senator Obinna Ogba and the warring parties.
Checks revealed that the Senate Committee admonition was in line with the advice of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) that the matter should be settled out of court to save Nigeria a subsisting loss of over N3 trillion annual revenue.
While giving the feuding parties two weeks deadlines to resolve their impasse out of court, the federal lawmakers upbraided federal government agencies for their lack of tardiness in handing the bid that resulted in legal action.
Investigation revealed that the Lottery Commission and the Bureau for Public Procurement allegedly shunned due process in the bidding process for the LPAAS contract.
System Numeric is accusing the Lottery Commission and Bureau for Public Procurement of violating due process in the bidding process for the contract as contained in the Act establishing the Lottery Commission.
In deference to the requirement stated during the bidding process in 2012, System Numeric submitted a technical proposal in which the financial proposal was a section.
The other company however submitted its…
