Govt may review freeze on registration for Class F contractor
Bernama (26/6/08): The Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Ministry is studying the effectiveness of a freeze in the issuance of new Class F licence, implemented in April 2005, and may reopen its registration in the future.
Minister Datuk Noh Omar said the move was necessary at the time as the number of contractors had outnumbered projects offered by the government.
He said there were 31,847 Class F contractors registered with the Contractor Service Centre (CSS) until June this year compared with 35,500 in April 2005.
"The government did a review on Class F contractors in January 2006 and had so far revoked the licences of 3,399 inactive contractors," he said in reply to Liang Teck Meng (BN-Simpang Renggam) at the Dewan Rakyat.
Noh said the contractors were assessed based on whether their accounts were active, had obtained jobs, submitted quotations, attended courses organised by CSS and had no records of abandoning projects given to them.
"Other wrongdoings include sub-contracting jobs and acting as agents to earn commission. Some of them were blacklisted," he said.
Noh also said the ministry had set up a working committee to encourage genuine joint ventures between Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera contractors as the efforts to harness them since 11 years ago had not been successful.
"The result was not very encouraging... only 11 genuine joint venture companies were be formed. We hope the non-Bumiputera can assist their Bumiputera counterparts and not merely take them in 'Ali Baba' ventures," he said in reply to Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS-Kota Raja).
On the Entrepreneur Development Institute (Insken), he said RM117.54 million had been spent to create 150,000 new entrepreneurs and upgrading the expertise of another 25,000 under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.
He said until April, 792,508 entrepreneurs had repaid RM5 billion out of RM10.3 billion in loans disbursed by agencies under the ministry.
Minister Datuk Noh Omar said the move was necessary at the time as the number of contractors had outnumbered projects offered by the government.
He said there were 31,847 Class F contractors registered with the Contractor Service Centre (CSS) until June this year compared with 35,500 in April 2005.
"The government did a review on Class F contractors in January 2006 and had so far revoked the licences of 3,399 inactive contractors," he said in reply to Liang Teck Meng (BN-Simpang Renggam) at the Dewan Rakyat.
Noh said the contractors were assessed based on whether their accounts were active, had obtained jobs, submitted quotations, attended courses organised by CSS and had no records of abandoning projects given to them.
"Other wrongdoings include sub-contracting jobs and acting as agents to earn commission. Some of them were blacklisted," he said.
Noh also said the ministry had set up a working committee to encourage genuine joint ventures between Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera contractors as the efforts to harness them since 11 years ago had not been successful.
"The result was not very encouraging... only 11 genuine joint venture companies were be formed. We hope the non-Bumiputera can assist their Bumiputera counterparts and not merely take them in 'Ali Baba' ventures," he said in reply to Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS-Kota Raja).
On the Entrepreneur Development Institute (Insken), he said RM117.54 million had been spent to create 150,000 new entrepreneurs and upgrading the expertise of another 25,000 under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.
He said until April, 792,508 entrepreneurs had repaid RM5 billion out of RM10.3 billion in loans disbursed by agencies under the ministry.
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