Doni Monardo Asks BPKP To Reveal Irregularities In Procurement Of COVID-19 Reagents: Compared To Later After Called By The KPK For Years

Kasatgas COVID-19 Dar Monardo (DOK. BNPB)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the COVID-19 Task Force Doni Monardo answered the findings of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) regarding irregularities in the procurement of a COVID-19 test kit, a problematic reagent. Doni asked that the odd findings in BNPB be disclosed in a transparent manner.

According to him, these irregularities should be better expressed now when he was still the Head of the BNPB as well as the Chair of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force.

"Just leak if there are irregularities, it's better to leak it now than later after all these years I was summoned by the KPK, I said. So I am actually grateful to BPKP for finding the findings so that we can fix them," said Doni in a hearing with Commission VIII DPR. , Tuesday March 16th.

It is known that BPKP conducted an audit of problematic suppliers of reagents for the Sansure, Liferiver, Addbio, Zeesen, and Kogen brands. BPKB sniffed out the waste of state money which was estimated at IDR 39.2 billion.

Regarding this, Doni assessed that the supplier of goods must replace medical devices in the form of reagents for expired PCR tests. According to him, this obligation is already contained in the contract and the integrity pact in the procurement of reagents for PCR tests.

"If it has expired (expired), then the supplier of the goods is obliged to replace it and it is in the contract, it is in the integrity pact," said Doni.

Doni said that the supplier of goods is also obliged to return the payment for the procurement of reagents for PCR tests if the BPKP states that the price of PCR test reagents that has been paid is too expensive.

"If the BPKP says it is too expensive and it has already been paid, the goods provider must return it to the state," said Doni.

Previously, the head of the COVID-19 Task Force Doni Monardo denied the alleged state loss due to the procurement of reagents that did not match a number of PCR test kits in regional laboratories during a meeting with Commission IX of the DPR, Monday, March 15.

Doni admitted that he involved BPKP and the Government Procurement Policy Agency (LKPP) in the procurement.

"So what is clear is that the procurement of goods and services at BNPB or in the task force is carried out transparently and accountably involving all parties," said Doni at the DPR RI Commission IX Working Meeting, Monday, March 15.

He dismissed the allegation that there were reagents that had accumulated in the BNPB, causing losses to state finances.