The chairman immediately rejected Tee Kek Ling's offer of S$200 a month and walked off after reading his initial quotation.
SINGAPORE: The director of a cleaning firm was fined S$14,000 on Wednesday for offering a monthly bribe to the chairman of the MacPherson Hawkers Association in exchange for a contract at a hawker centre.
In early 2022, the hawker centre's contract with its cleaning contractor, Jie Jin Cleaning Services, was coming to an end. Because the association was relatively unfamiliar with holding tender exercises, it sought help from the National Environment Agency and asked for recommendations of"reliable cleaning contractors".Mr Quek invited the two firms, along with a third firm JJ Cleaning, to take part in the tender exercise. He told them that they could submit only one quotation each and that the association would not accept any edits or resubmissions.
Mr Quek immediately rejected him. Tee then told Mr Quek that NEA"could not do anything" if Mr Quek awarded the contract to Tee's cleaning firm without the tender.In March 2022, Tee found out that his company's quotation was priced higher than that of JJ Cleaning's. Because he could not amend the quotation, he contacted some Circuit Road Hawker Centre stall owners directly.
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