How can MAHB improve contractor vetting with MACC and MyCC?

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PAC told MAHB to tighten procurement and contractor vetting with MACC and MyCC to curb cartel practices
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) directed Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) to tighten its procurement and contractor vetting system with the cooperation of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC). The stated aim is to eradicate cartel practices by contractors the PAC described as incompetent, after the airport operator’s privatisation. PAC also linked the tightening of safeguards to preventing repeated failures in facilities and services, including roof leakages, broken toilets and passenger loading bridges.
What PAC required MAHB to tighten
PAC’s instruction focuses on MAHB’s procurement process and how contractors are vetted before work is awarded. It was delivered as part of PAC’s report on an early assessment of the privatisation exercise tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on July 1. PAC framed the change as a safeguard against cartel practices and poor contractor performance.
How MACC and MyCC are positioned to cooperate
PAC said MAHB must work with MACC and MyCC as part of tightening contractor vetting, but it did not spell out the specific mechanisms or steps those agencies would carry out. What is clear from PAC’s statement is the cooperative linkage: MACC and MyCC are named as partners in the vetting system, alongside CAAM. The objective stated by PAC is to eradicate cartel practices linked to incompetent contractors.
What outcomes PAC tied to the vetting move
PAC connected the procurement and vetting tightening to stopping recurring facility and service failures at airports. It cited examples including roof leakages, broken toilets and issues with passenger loading bridges. PAC’s warning suggests the vetting changes are meant to reduce the likelihood of such failures happening again.
What PAC said alongside the vetting directive
PAC also issued eight recommendations in its report, including keeping Malaysia’s airports under government control through majority ownership by state investment corporations and tabling periodic audit reports to the Cabinet. Within that set of recommendations, the procurement and contractor vetting tightening was singled out as a concrete action linked to MACC, CAAM and MyCC. The PAC chairman, Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin, delivered the directive during a press conference in Parliament.

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