MGTO: Light Festival contract unannounced due to lack of regulation

The contracts for both the Light Festival and the Parade for Celebration of the Year of the Monkey were outsourced to Creation Advertising Co., Ltd. with no notice published in the government Official Gazette.
When asked about the process, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) replied that there are no regulations requiring it to give notice for outsourced contracts, Cheng Pou reported.
According to the initial report, the government last year outsourced 19 services to the same company, but only the aforementioned two were outsourced through public tenders. The remaining 17 contracts were assigned to the companies by direct consultation between the two parties. The 19 services were worth MOP50.4 million in total.
The Business and Vehicles Registry information states that one of the three shareholders of Creation Advertising is Tony Lam, the president of Macau Fair and Trade Association. He received a Merit Award in 2007, when Edmund Ho was the Chief Executive of Macau.
Since 2001, Lam has been a member of the Committee for the Development of Conventions and Exhibitions. He was also a member of the Chief Executive Election Committee in 2014. Fernando Chui Sai-on was elected to the post in 2009 and was re-elected as chief executive in 2014.