John Bundy planning to sue PBS over dismissal on procurement fracas, says he met Prime Minister

Former PBS CEO John Bundy has said that he intends to sue PBS over his dismissal last week, and that the Board had been aware of procurement negotiations.

In an interview on The Malta Independent’s InDepth programme, Bundy also confirmed that, following his dismissal, he had met with the Prime Minister to give his version of events, but said that they only spoke about [Bundy’s] personal affairs, and nothing had been offered to him. He did not go into the details of what was discussed.

Bundy explained that a number of months after being appointed CEO he had met with employees, and it had emerged that a common problem was that the vehicle fleet was aging and was in need of urgent replacing.

He had then held a meeting with Brian Galea, the financial controller, Edmund Tabone, the procurement manager, and Mario Micallef, sales and marketing manager, where they discussed what should be done to get a new fleet of cars.

Tabone had suggested asking different car companies for quotes, following which Micallef, althought this wasn’t in his remit, had obtained a number of quotes. After meeting again and comparing quotes, it had been decided that the best offer was from Burmarrad Commercials.

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Following a number of negotiation meetings with Burmarrad Commercials, a “very good deal” had been reached, Bundy maintained, whereby the owner of the company had to buy the old PBS cars, buy €3,000 worth of adverts each year, and replace out-of-service cars at the same rate.

Bundy insisted that Galea, Tabone and Micallef had been with him for every meeting with Burmarrad Commercials, until the deal was closed. Therefore, he said, accusations that he had said that he didn’t “give a toss about the board”, and that he had sidelined the three managers, were untrue.