Stephen Wedderburn, ICT project manager of GeoTechVision, has reacted, saying that he was disheartened by Williams’ “false” statement, adding that it could be prejudicial to a dispute before the courts between GeoTech Vision and the state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited over the matter.
Officials of GeoTechVision and e-Learning Jamaica are headed to mediation over the latter’s termination of a contract with GeoTech to supply devices under the Tablets in Schools Project.
The Gleaner has learnt that on Tuesday, e-Learning Jamaica sought to have the Supreme Court set a trial date to see whether the US$16-million contract was properly terminated last September.
Yesterday, Wedderburn told The Gleaner that mediation had been previously proposed, but e-Learning Jamaica reportedly refused to dialogue with them.
Wedderburn said that although e-Learning Jamaica had said that the contract was pulled over quality issues as the devices did not meet the required standards, at no point did it present the list of faults to GeoTech Vision.
