State-owned en­er­gy com­pa­ny Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Ltd has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed two out of three chal­lenges to the pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dure it fol­lowed for se­cu­ri­ty con­tracts for var­i­ous as­pects of its op­er­a­tions.

De­liv­er­ing three de­ci­sions last Thurs­day, two pan­els ap­point­ed by the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion dis­missed two chal­lenges brought by Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Ltd on the ba­sis that there were no breach­es of the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act.

How­ev­er, a third pan­el found that Paria un­law­ful­ly ap­plied an undis­closed band­ing method­ol­o­gy when eval­u­at­ing the ten­ders it re­ceived for se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices for its ma­rine op­er­a­tions.