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Following is a question by the Hon Lee Cheuk-yan and a written reply by the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr Frederick Ma at the Legislative Council meeting today (April 30):
Question:
Regarding the contracts awarded by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Government Property Agency, Housing Department and Leisure and Cultural Services Department for outsourcing cleaning, security guard and property management services, will the Government inform this Council of:
(a) the respective numbers of such contracts awarded in the previous and current financial years; and
(b) the criteria for awarding such contracts, the effective dates of the respective contracts, the service locations, the respective numbers of cleaning workers, security guards and property attendants recruited to provide the services concerned, as well as the amount of wages the contractors undertook to pay these staff in the previous financial year?
Reply:
Madam President,
(a) Based on the information provided by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Government Property Agency, Housing Department and Leisure and Cultural Services Department, a total of 308 cleaning, security guard and property management service contracts were awarded by the four departments during 2002-03 and up to 22 April in the current financial year. A breakdown is provided as follows :
Department Number of cleaning Number of security
contracts awarded guard and property
management contracts
awarded
02-03 03-04 02-03 03-04
(up to 22 April) (up to 22 April)
Food and Environmental
Hygiene Department
76 5 12 1
Government Property
Agency 0 0 1 0
Leisure and Cultural
Services Department
15 0 7 0
Housing Department
4 0 187 0
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Total 95 5 207 1
(b) Details of the effective dates and service locations of the above contracts,
number of workers employed in these contracts, the amount of wages the contractors
undertook to pay the concerned workers and the evaluation criteria for these
contracts are set out in Annex
1 to Annex 4 (PDF format) for the four departments concerned.
End/Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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