The Director General of the General Services Agency (GSA) Tuesday revealed at the ongoing Budget hearing that she signed a contract valued US$220,900 with an auditing company owned by Auditor General Robert Kilby.
Madam Pearine Davis-Parkinson said the company, named and styled, "Independent Software Certification (ISCI), was contracted by the GSA to complete and execute the asset and fleet tracking and reporting system at the agency.
According to a document from the House Committee on Ways, Means and Finance, the agreement was signed between GSA boss and Mr. Kilby's Company in December 3, 2012, three months after he took over as Auditor General.
Madam Parkinson also divulged that she and Mr. Kilby had earlier worked in the Office of the President after his (Kilby) denial by the Liberian Senate and later went back to the GSA as Technical Adviser.
The document is quoted as saying that the GSA Director, disregarding the issue of conflict of interest, contracted Mr. Kilby's company to conduct a physical inventory count of all GSA asserts and fleet, develop a coding scheme for tracking and reporting items by type and category, barcode all asserts, implement automated assert and fleet management tracking and conduct training for GSA staff on fleet management system.
The contract, which duration was for five months, was executed by Mr. Kilby's Company while serving as Auditor General.
The contract states that GSA Management accepted to pay the ISCI in three installments.
GSA accepted to make the first payment of US$88,360,00 before December 15, 2013, US$66,270,00 upon completion of fifty percent of the work, while US$55,225,00 was agreed to be paid upon completion of the entire work.
Although it is about seven months now since GSA awarded the contract to the Auditor General's Company, the GSA Director did not say whether the project has been competed.
The GSA director's explanation irritated the House Ways, Means and Finance Committee, describing it as "a complete conflict of interest."
Madam Parkinson's confession left the committee members with no alternative, but to summon Mr. Kilby to appear before it on Thursday to explain his connection with the ISCI.
The GSA Director was mandated to provide all necessary financial documents regarding payments made to the ISCI.
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I see why AG Kilby has no time for an audit in Liberia but travels frequently in and out of the USA where he has a home.He is trying to get a bill passed that will enable him to be AG for life.He must be greasing the right elbows with his contracts.Because he is not qualify for the job and yet got it some kind of way.