SECRECY JUSTIFIED.
STORES CONTROL BOARD.
"PKOTECTION FOR TENDERERS."
(By Telegraph. Reporter.)
Wednesday.
The Stores Control Board, which last year made purchases involving payments totalling over £4,000,000, for Government Departments, discusses jii . its annual report its policy of ■ not disclosing the prices. It reserves the right to disclose or to treat as confidential the prices paid for stores. .
"In practice the great majority of prices are available to any person interested, but some tenderers; stipulate that their'quotations are to be treated as confidential," says the ■ board. "It is known that these stipulations are nearly always due to attempts by trade combinations to control prices to' the disadvantage of the State. In such circumstances it is considered reasonable to afford genuine tenderers the protection asked for, and ■ the 'effect on tender prices proves clearly that the board's policy is justified. The large savings effected, and the fact that satisfactory tenders have been received for a. number of years, indicate that the prices paid are remunerative to the contractors."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 21
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