Stop relying on state contracts, Muhyiddin tells Malay contractors

KUALA LUMPUR, Jun twenty-three Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has urged Malay contractors to create their own opportunities instead of relying only on government contracts, a sensitive issue as Putrajaya pushes for some-more economic competition.

The emissary budding apportion pronounced they could work their own construction projects, for example, to save costs as skill prices spike, rather than handing them over to alternative developers.

Create value from fields which we have expertise in by regulating a opposite approach, pronounced Muhyiddin (picture) at a Malay Contractors Associations (PKMM) annual general public final night.

This is to create some-more opportunities than what is usually offering by a government. This is my sincere opinion, he added.

The Umno emissary boss reassured them, however, which a statute Barisan Nasional (BN) would continue to make firm Malay interests in a countrys development.

The government-owned Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad recently yielded to pressure from Malay rights groups when it revised a pre-qualification criteria for multiform construction packages for a Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) by allowing corner ventures or consortiums.

Bumiputera contractors had complained which a owners of a countrys largest infrastructure plan had excluded them from even a pre-qualification phase. The inhabitant Malay Chamber of Commerce as well as Industry had even asked a government to palm over a plan to them, saying it was capable of running it.

Some Bumiputera contractors as well as groups had additionally complained which UDA Holdings Bhd had additionally ignored a Bumiputera economic agenda by appearing to select non-Bumiputera companies for its flagship Bukit Bintang City Centre plan on a former Pudu Jail land.

UDA Holdings authority Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed pronounced a as! sociatio n has to have increase to tarry for a sake of its 1,400 employees as well as to ensure government policies can flourish.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak set up a Unit Peneraju Agenda Bumiputera (Teraju) final Feb to make firm a Bumiputera development agenda underneath his New Economic Model (NEM) after complaints from a communitys commercial operation groups.


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