Searching for a Remedy: Assessing Malaysia’s Government Procurements Appeals and Grievance Mechanism
On 25 August 2025, the Government Procurement Bill was tabled for its first reading in the DewanRakyat. Within a short span of time, it proceeded through its second and third readings, and wassubsequently passed by both Houses of Parliament. The resulting Government Procurement Act (GPA)2025 now awaits gazettement before it comes into force. The passage […]
C4 Center demands that the Government Procurement Bill 2025 must not be passed
28 AUGUST 2025 PRESS STATEMENT C4 Center demands that the Government Procurement Bill 2025 must not be passed On 27 August 2025, the second reading of the Government Procurement Bill 2025 was held in the Dewan Rakyat. The Bill was met with intense scrutiny from the opposition Members of Parliament and even from within the […]
Government Procurement Bill: Serious concerns around Ministerial powers, lack of accountability mechanisms, and disproportionate investigative and enforcement powers
26 August 2025 PRESS STATEMENT On Monday 25 August 2025, the Government Procurement Bill (the “Bill”) was tabled for its first reading in Parliament. The Bill contains 93 clauses with the stated aim of, among others, providing for the duties, accountability, governance and transparency in Government procurement. This Bill comes after years of advocacy from […]
Policy Proposal to the Malaysian Government: The Procurement Act
Government procurement has long been considered one of, if not the biggest source of wastage of public funds across governments around the world, and remains the area of governance most susceptible to corruption. Malaysia is no stranger to such occurrences, with some of nation’s biggest corruption scandals being procurement-related. Previous and successive Malaysian governments have […]
Budget 2025: Reforms welcome, but procurement risks remain a key concern
23 OCTOBER 2024 PRESS STATEMENT On 18 October 2024, the Supply (Budget) Bill 2025 was tabled in Parliament and notably, was the largest budget ever tabled in Malaysian history. Overall, the items in the budget suggest a positive shift by the government in the direction of improving accountability in public service delivery, as well as […]
PAC findings expose massive misgovernance issue at the heart of migrant labour recruitment, police investigations must ensue
6 JULY 2024 PRESS STATEMENT On 3 July 2024, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) led by Mas Ermieyati reported that the migrant labour recruitment system under the supervision of the Ministry of Home Affairs had been operating for six years without having been formalised in a contract. The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 […]
Closed Door Roundtable Discussion on Malaysia’s Public Procurement System
C4 Center team together with Rasuah Busters had a closed-door session with industry players on how we can improve our public procurement process taking into account the various issues from corruption, abuse of power and the seeming lack of investigations on perpetrators. We further looked at how technology can play a role in mitigating these […]
C4 met with Penang CM Chow to present procurement report
A FOUR-MEMBER delegation from the Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (or better known as C4), led by its executive director Cynthia Gabriel, paid a courtesy call on Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow at his office in Komtar today. The other members were C4 northern region co-ordinator Sudhagaran Stanley, core team member Michael Xavier and […]