LITINA TRAVEL & TOURS LTD (PLAINTIFFS) vs. NATIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY (DEFENDANTS) [2016]DLHC7332

LITINA TRAVEL & TOURS LTD (PLAINTIFFS) vs. NATIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY (DEFENDANTS... [2016]DLHC7332

Date	2016-11-10
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BFS/276/12
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC7332

HIS LORDSHIP GEORGE K. KOOMSON (J).

NSIAH ASARE JNR FOR THE PLAINTIFF

CECIL ADADEVOR FOR THE DEFENDANT

[2016]DLHC7332
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >LITINA
TRAVEL &amp; TOURS LTD<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NATIONAL
SPORTS AUTHORITY<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL
DIVISION), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO. BFS/276/12&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 10TH NOVEMBER, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>NSIAH
ASARE JNR FOR THE PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CECIL
ADADEVOR FOR THE DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS
LORDSHIP GEORGE K. KOOMSON (J).<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>The National Sports Authority (hereinafter called
“The NSA”) put out an advertisement in the Ghanaian daily newspapers, Daily
Graphic and Ghanaian Times, soliciting prospective consulting firms to submit
their profiles in expression of interest in undertaking travel consultancy
services for it for an initial five-year term.&nbsp;
Several travel consulting firms submitted their profile to the NSA after
which they shortlisted the two most eligible consulting firms, namely, Litina
Travel and Tours Ltd (the Plaintiff) and Africa Origin Travel and Tours Ltd.<o:p></o:p>On the 14th August, 2015, the two
shortlisted consulting firms were requested by virtue of an invitation to
tender with IFT No. NSA/RFP/TA/01/2015, to submit proposals to be subjected
through public competitive tender process for purposes of selecting the better
bidder of the two consulting firms in terms of the tender documents to be engaged
as a travel agent for the NSA. The request for proposal stated that the
consultant will be selected under the quality and cost-based selection.<o:p></o:p>There were instructions set out in the tender
document particularly the tender data sheet that the bidders were supposed to
submit two separate proposals constituting their respective bid; the first
being their respective technical proposals and the second being their respective
financial proposal in respect of the first transaction under the subject
contract i.e. transporting passengers or a contingent to the ongoing All African
Games that was being held in Congo Brazzaville.<o:p></o:p>Having gone through the tender processes, the
Tender Committee adjudged Litina Travel and Tours as the successful bidder and
accordingly recommended it for the award of the contract.<o:p></o:p>Despite the recommendations made by the Tender
Committee, the Ministry of Youth and Sports intervened and compelled Litina
Travel and Tours to partner African Origin Travel and Tours Ltd for the
contract in their joint names.&nbsp; Litina
Travel and Tours Ltd protested to the Public Procurement Authority but the
Ministry of Youth and Sports ignored their protestation.&nbsp; African Origin Travel and Tours Ltd was
accordingly awarded the contract to airlift the contingent or passengers to
Congo Brazzaville for the All African Games.&nbsp;
It is against this background that the Plaintiff has brought this action
seeking the following reliefs:-<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
declaration that on a true and proper construction of sections 59(1) (2) and
(3), 74 and 75 of Act 663 and the criteria set in the invitation to tender the Plaintiff
ought to be the most successful bidder.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
declaration that the Plaintiff’s tender having been ascertained in terms of
both the Technical and Financial Evaluation to be the most competitive bid and
recommended in the Tender Committee’s report as the most successful bid is the
acceptable bid under the tender process in terms of section 65 of Act 663 <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
declaration that the conduct of the NSA warranting African Origin Travel and
Trading Ltd to airlift passengers the subject matter of the tender to Congo
Brazzaville when the Plaintiff was the most successful&nbsp; bidder breaches Article 23 of the
Constitution, 1992.<o:p></o:p>