What specific procurement system improvements does the PAC recommend for MAHB?

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The PAC did not spell out specific procurement system changes for MAHB, but it ordered a tighter procurement and contractor vetting system in cooperation with MACC, CAAM and MyCC.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) told Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) to tighten its procurement process, warning about potential cartel practices after MAHB’s privatisation. In its eight recommendations, the PAC specifically called for MAHB to tighten its procurement and contractor vetting system with the cooperation of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM), and the Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC) to eradicate cartel practices involving incompetent contractors. The PAC also linked this to preventing repeat facility and services failures such as roof leakages, broken toilets, and issues with passenger loading bridges.
PAC’s only detailed instruction: tighten procurement and contractor vetting
The PAC’s report includes an explicit instruction that MAHB “must tighten its procurement and contractor vetting system.” It does not provide the exact procedural or technical adjustments to MAHB’s procurement system in the available material, such as specific new controls, thresholds, or workflow changes.
Cartel prevention is tied to contractor competence
The PAC’s caution centres on potential cartel practices following privatisation, with a focus on contractors described as incompetent. The committee framed its procurement and vetting tightening as a way to eradicate cartel practices by those contractors, rather than as a general review without defined targets.
Coordination with MACC, CAAM and MyCC is part of the recommendation
A key element of the PAC’s recommendation is that MAHB should implement the tighter procurement and contractor vetting system with the cooperation of MACC, CAAM, and MyCC. The available information names these bodies but does not describe what each one would do operationally within MAHB’s procurement process.
The intended outcome is to stop repeat facility failures
The PAC connected the procurement and vetting tightening to ensuring that failures of airport facilities and services do not recur. The examples given are roof leakages, broken toilets, and passenger loading bridge problems, indicating the committee’s concern about service reliability after privatisation.

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