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For­mer gov­ern­ment mem­bers Stu­art Young and Renu­ka Sagram­s­ingh-Sook­lal, have filed a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) re­quest on be­half of so­cial me­dia com­men­ta­tor Wen­dell Ever­s­ley seek­ing of­fi­cial records re­lat­ed to the pro­cure­ment and op­er­a­tion of the ves­sel Blue Wave Har­mo­ny.

The FOIA is re­quest­ing dis­clo­sure from the Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO) con­cern­ing the ves­sel’s en­gage­ment on the in­ter is­land sea bridge and the use of pub­lic funds con­nect­ed to it.

Ac­cord­ing to the ap­pli­ca­tion, the re­quest tar­gets records de­tail­ing the pro­cure­ment method­ol­o­gy used to se­cure the ves­sel, in­clud­ing in­vi­ta­tions to ten­der, bid sub­mis­sions, eval­u­a­tion re­ports and any doc­u­ment­ed jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the se­lec­tion process, par­tic­u­lar­ly if sole-source or emer­gency pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures were ap­plied. The fil­ing al­so seeks Cab­i­net Notes, Min­utes and min­is­te­r­i­al sub­mis­sions con­nect­ed to ap­proval of the ac­qui­si­tion and its fi­nanc­ing.