Govt. calls for bids for sale of 21 presidential office vehicles
- CNL Reporter
- February 27, 2025
- News
- Govt. calls for bids for sale of 21 presidential office vehicles
- 0 Comments
The government has announced that it is in the final stages of auctioning of all luxury and high-engine capacity vehicles on the open market, which have become a substantial non-financial burden on state institutions, as reported to the Sunday Times.
In the first stage, the Presidential Secretariat has called for bids for the sale of 21 vehicles belonging to it. Additional Secretary to the President (Transport), Mahesh Hewavitharana said that a Valuation Board for Disposal consisting of several officials representing quite a few government institutions, including himself, decided which vehicles under the President’s Office should be sold.
The Cabinet had decided on December 12 last year that luxury vehicles, which have become a financial burden on ministries, provincial councils, state corporations, state enterprises, universities, banks, should be disposed of as soon as possible according to the government procurement procedure.
Accordingly, the Comptroller General’s Office under the Ministry of Finance issued a circular to all heads of state institutions on December 18 — Assets Management Circular No. 5/2024, stating that they should dispose of the luxury vehicles in their institutions by following the government’s procurement procedure and report all information to the Comptroller General Department by March
