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Julian Manduca
The company that defaulted on the tender to replace the St Luke’s incinerator has entered the process to install new equipment at Mater Dei, MaltaToday has learned.
Maltese company Sarrebico together with its former partners Sanitec Ltd had already won the tender process to replace the St Luke’s incinerator, but were not able to fulfil their obligations and the award was cancelled in August of 2003. Sarrebico had informed the Director of Contracts that it
was not in a position to supply the equipment three months after MaltaToday had revealed that Sanitec Ltd top bosses were being investigated in a sleaze scandal.
Now Sarrebico and a new company called Sanitec Industries Ltd, with different shareholders, but using the same logo and the same, or similar, technology have once again expressed their interest to install new waste treatment technology at Mater Dei.
MaltaToday contacted Sanitec Industries to ask why Sanitec Ltd did not fulfil its obligations last year, but its legal representative avoided the question and replied: “Sanitec Industries, Inc. has no connection or involvement with any of the various ‘Sanitec’ entities that are alleged to have engaged in fraudulent activities, including Sanitec, Ltd., Sanitec Group LLC, and Guardian Investments.”
Aubrey A. Rothrock III, told MaltaToday that “over the last six months, Sanitec has repeatedly declared its willingness and capability to supply state-of-the-art microwave disposal technology to Malta within eight weeks of receipt of an order. The implementation of this technology would bring to an end the pollution problems associated with the outdated incinerator at St. Luke’s Hospital.
“We stand ready and willing to provide the microwave disposal equipment should the government be interested. Sanitec Industries would of course value the opportunity to assist Malta as it makes the environment safer for its citizens.
“It would be a shame if Malta were to forgo an opportunity to implement the Sanitec technology, because nothing in the current market even comes close to its effectiveness or level of efficiency in disposing of medical waste without hazardous emissions. We have repeatedly indicated our willingness to send a unit under a payment structure of 33 percent of the purchase price once the unit is confirmed to be on the freighter, 33 percent when the unit is delivered in Malta and the balance when the unit is installed and fully operational.”
Another of the companies applying is INSO SpA which has entered into a partnership with Metodo Oxford. INSO was the subject of much controversy recently when it was awarded the tender for the supply of hospital equipment to Mater Dei.
The tender award did not go down well with the German firm Hospitalia and the Dutch Simed who hotly contested the award and still fill they have been cheated. Both the German and Dutch governments are known to have raised an eye-brow over the controversial award.
It has taken the authorities a full ten months to re-launch the tender process and MaltaToday had received several enquiries as to why the process should have taken so long.
23 other companies have filled in a questionnaire as the first part of process leading to the award of the tender. Leading the pack is Polidano Group Ltd with five companies: San-I-Pak Inc; Tempico Inc; and Bondtech Inc, all of the USA; Sterifant GmbH, Germany and Hydroclave of Canada.
Advanced Industrial Systems, owned by AIS’s Mario Schembri has shown interest with four companies: Hydroclave Systems Corp; Ecodas; Crawford Industrial Group and Erdwich.
Among the other bidders are: Charles de Giorgio Ltd with their partners Meteka; InvinigValor Imprenditori SRL together with Anteco SRL and their Maltese partners Motherwell Bridge owned by the Hili brothers, Guillaumier with their partners CGEA and Omex; M. Demajo (Holdings) Ltd with Schneider Eng and Paul Ehrlich; Mekanika Ltd with their partners Messrs BIC Systems of Belgium; Alberta Ltd with Techtrol Incineration Systems; Alberta Trading, Fire and Security with Facultative Technologies and a separate one with Medi Waste; Environmental Services Ltd – company set up by Ramiro Cali-Corleo on 31 May 2004 - which has two bids, one with WRE and another with Hydroclave Systems; and Serolf Trading Ltd a company set up in October 2003 owned by Francis Anthony Flores with David Grech and Loraine Grech Flores, that also has two bids with CFA Technology and Hydroclave Systems.
Julian@newsworksltd.com
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