Overview
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered a fully transparent investigation and said those found responsible would face action.
- Pakistan’s procurement regulator, PPRA, has asked SNGPL’s chief to show how the company complied with a Review Board ruling that termed the tender a mis-procurement.
- Transparency International Pakistan says SNGPL advertised the filter tender only to foreign firms and wrongly marked a complainant non-responsive under a clause meant for foreign bidders.
- In a separate filing, the watchdog asked the Prime Minister’s Office to review Pakistan Airports Authority’s Rs 20 billion E‑Gate award for alleged misuse of Rule 42(f), which allows buying from a state entity only if it can deliver the project itself.
- The airport complaint also flags missing required documents, a lack of the 10% performance security, and claims of heavy overpricing, with both matters now awaiting official decisions.