{"id":166949,"date":"2021-10-25T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=166949"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:48:05","slug":"rd1-3-billion-over-cost-in-e-devices-for-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/rd1-3-billion-over-cost-in-e-devices-for-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"RD$1.3 billion over cost in e-devices for public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tabletas-de-educacion-Hoy-e1635173275448.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167026\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A report in Diario Libre focuses on complaints that the tender approved by the Ministry of Education to supply e-devices to public school children has major irregularities that would cost the Dominican government RD$1.3 billion more. Suppliers protested the tender and the Procurement Agency put the purchase of many lots of the e-devices on hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Education sued the Procurement Agency on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The e-devices case is now under review in the Superior Administrative Court, the court that reviews government actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre highlights that the suppliers of allotments that were cleared have only delivered 17% of their commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.diariolibre.com\/epaper\/viewer.html?publication=diariolibre&amp;date=25_10_2021&amp;tpuid=661\">Diario Libre \u2013 page 14 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report in Diario Libre focuses on complaints that the tender approved by the Ministry of Education to supply e-devices to public school children has major irregularities that would cost the Dominican government RD$1.3 billion more. Suppliers protested the tender and the Procurement Agency put the purchase of many lots of the e-devices on hold. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/rd1-3-billion-over-cost-in-e-devices-for-public-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167027,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166949\/revisions\/167027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}