AGC, SPRING defend designer chair purchases

[Confuseous]

SINGAPORE - After the Auditor-General's Office (AGO) took issue with the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) purchase of 472 office chairs at more than S$570 each, the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) and SPRING Singapore have also come under fire online for similar transactions.

In response to TODAY's queries, the AGC and SPRING reiterated that their respective purchases were in line with procurement rules and best practices, with both agencies citing the longer period of warranty - 12 years - as one of the factors they took into consideration.

The MOM was among the public agencies cited in the AGO's latest report released last week, over the ministry's purchase of Herman Miller designer chairs in March last year. According to the report, the AGO had acted on a complaint and it took the MOM to task for not taking into account cost-effectiveness in the evaluation and ranking of the bids.

Following the AGO's report, a blogger pointed out that - based on tender documents and award information on government procurement portal GeBIZ - the AGC had bought, in March, 200 ergonomic chairs at S$597 each while SPRING bought 28 Herman Miller chairs last month for S$650 each.

- http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120823-0000052/AGC,-SPRING-defend-designer-chair-purchases

 

[Capano2121]

Cheap chairs tend to make them very tired due to back strain after sitting long hours CBL! The cheap chairs create an environment that is very uncondusive to productivity & that's why they have all these red tapes to hinder the smooth operations of the departments lah! Now with the purchase of a twelve year warrantied chair, they can finally sit straight & think about improving their productivity to secure for themselves higher pay & at the same time serving citizens better with more red tapes. A rested back gives a rested brain & a rested brain will have enough space to store in more information on how to skive!

 

[hurley]

herman miller not good enough. i recommend this

 

[looneytan]

Cheap chairs tend to make them very tired due to back strain after sitting long hours

Yah Man,

Fuckers want me to sit on this thing to work, izzitts :oIo:

 

[po2wq]

... <IMG src="http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/itemimages/168/636/168636_Large.jpg" height=120></IMG>

how much dey selling tis chair? ...

 

[looneytan]

how much dey selling tis chair? ...

Herman Miller sell them for $327/- each

but if you want, PM me, I can get from Sungei Kadut garung guni man for $6/-

 

[kingrant]

How come got so much time to sit until must buy designer chairs? No wonder all these nincompoops lost touch with the ground. They should get out more. In fact, there should not be any chairs in the office! All should be on the ground!

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

herman miller not good enough. i recommend this

This one is reserved for the level of people with golden taps.

 

[Cruxx]

how much dey selling tis chair? ...

With vibration or without?

 

[Capano2121]

This is the perfect chair for all the ministars!

 

[Capano2121]

This is just perfect for the rest of the porlumpars!