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Date:
28.11.86.
Time:
Reporter:
8.30
PMO
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MR LEE: Any supplement from the Commissioner ?
CCS: I know nothing about the uniforms, how they obtain them or whether they have returned them, I am sorry.
MR CHEONG:
Could I ask whether the Secretary knows how
7 many tailors are being employed in making uniforms for the
different services ?
If you don't know it, could you supply it
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S for S:
Yes, I will.
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MR CHUNG: Mr Secretary, I am not confident that in fact
although it is said to be made to measure by the contractors,
the tailor, whether it is really the case. I don't know whether
the Government have any supervision on these contractors ?
S for S: No, the contractors if they are typical
Government contracts, which I am sure they are, then the contract
is judged on its results. The contract is awarded on the basis
of tendering procedures and it is awarded either by the Central
Tender Board or by the smaller organisations of the
MR CHUNG:
Why did you contract out ? No control at all.
Once it is contracted out, there is no supervision of the contractor.
S for S: If it is a typical Hong Kong Government contract,
that is so.
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As I say, it is the results that count and the price.
MR CHUNG:
Could I refer you to paragraph 88 of the
Director of Audit's report. Here at the end of the paragraph, the Director gave an example that between the month of February and May 1985 the Commissioner of Customs and Excise had to return
nearly 800 items of made-to-measure uniforms to the contractor for
alteration. So between the two months, the items returned amount
to 800 already, so it must be quite a huge quantity.
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