THE Commonwealth Ports Authority is auctioning old and used items ranging from trash bins to vehicles.
CPA Executive Director Christopher Tenorio and other CPA officials were on Rota on Tuesday to continue the auction that started Thursday last week at the Port of Saipan.
Among the items being auctioned on Saipan are various CPA properties that included a 2007 Ford Escape, a 2002 Ford Econoline Van, two 1992 Nissan Pathfinders, an E-One Titan Truck, a John Deere Tractor, a 40-foot container, baggage carts, a Caterpillar generator, furniture, office chairs, benches, several air-conditioning units, security cameras, desktop computers, printers and many more.
CPA Chairwoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds said these are decommissioned items.
“This is something that CPA should have been doing on an annual basis, but did not,” she added. “One of the findings in the audit is the lack of proper management of equipment. We didn’t have standard operation procedures for proper disposal of decommissioned items,” King-Hinds said.
She said since the audit and the letter from the Federal Aviation Administration, “we’ve worked really hard to develop and implement SOP’s such as an annual disposal requirement for decommissioned items after an annual physical inventory which identifies which items should be decommissioned.”
