The Director of the Supply and Stores Department at the Ministry of Education, Matrouk Al-Mutairi said about 40,000 requests for supply of furniture (chairs and tables) has been completed, out of the 85,000 requests that the department had received, saying the furniture stores expect to complete all requests within two weeks at the latest based on available quantities.
He added, the department works according to a plan and indicated that the requests for furniture are fulfilled according to the capabilities of the administration and its current furniture stock, as it provides nearly half of the required quantity for each school, and added a new tender for furniture supply will be floated soon, “but documentary cycle may take a whole year,” for the process to be completed, reports a local Arabic daily.
Al-Mutairi stated that his administration has offered 4 tenders for school buses to provide transportation service in all educational areas, noting that it is likely that these tenders will be approved by the regulatory authorities soon, to be implemented at the beginning of the second semester of this year, pointing out that the maintenance contracts for my areas Jahra and the capital are still with the Central Agency for Public Tenders, which prompted the administration to request direct contracting for the maintenance of some schools in the two regions until their contracts are approved by the regulatory authorities.
