I.The first firm is a consultant that deployed EMR Software called Careplus while second firm is a consultant/agent that collects revenue and remit to the Centre’s account.
II.The contract file of the first firm was not made available to audit.
III.The Centre provided a contract file of the second firm but without relevant procurement documents to show that due process was followed as there was no evidence of solicitation documents like company’s tax clearance certificate, three years audited account, evidence of advertisement in at least two (2) national dailies and Federal Tenders Board.
IV.The Centre did not maintain Procurement Committee and Parastatal’s Tenders Board meeting documents hence non of the minutes of the meetings were made available to the audit.
V.The Centre paid the sum of N76,529,361.22 to both the first and second firm, broken down as N26,433,750.00 and N29,650,000.00 in 2017 and 2016 respectively for the first firm and N20,445,561.43 for the second firm representing N655,860.00, N5,091,653.43, N7,133,204.69, and N7,564,892.21 for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively, and
VI.The Centre could not generate sales report to enable audit ascertain the completeness of the revenue collected by the agent.