Govt itself ‘confused’ over MySejahtera vendor, says PAC chief

PETALING JAYA: Putrajaya itself seems to be “confused” as to who appointed KPISoft Sdn Bhd as the vendor for the MySejahtera mobile application, said Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Wong Kah Woh.

He said there had been no formal contract between the government and KPISoft “since Day 1”, except for a non-disclosure agreement between the National Security Council (MKN) and the firm on data collected through the app.

“The procurement process was not handled well. Under normal circumstances, the government would have had direct negotiations with the vendor, an open tender or a limited tender process.

“Here, the big confusion is who made the appointment and what was the justification. This was (one of) the key questions we asked.

“I think the government itself is confused as to who (made the decision). That is quite a serious issue,” said the Ipoh Timur MP in a report by The Edge.

Wong said this after PAC’s proceedings on the development and procurement of MySejahtera today, which reportedly lasted around three hours.

Last week, the PAC called up health minister Khairy Jamaluddin and finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz over the app.

Today, it called in representatives from MKN, the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (Mampu) and the National Cyber Security Agency.

Wong said Putrajaya should have finalised the terms of its contract from the start, rather than negotiate the price with the vendor now.

“(Our concern is) why is the government putting itself in a situation where it has to pay the developer for MySejahtera, when the whole thing started as a CSR (corporate social responsibility) undertaking,” he added.

Wong said the committee would first go through the evidence shared with it so far to determine if more people needed to be called to testify. — Free Malaysia Today