Cabinet has approved the award of a $69,300,000 contract to the United States-based Starlims Corporation for the supply and installation of laboratory informa-tion systems software at the National Public Health Laboratory.

"The software is being acquired under the Government of Jamaica/ World Bank HIV/AIDS prevention and control project, and will enhance the management informa-tion system for the National Public Health Laboratory, the Blood Bank and its associated regional laboratories," Minister of Information and Development, Donald Buchanan, said last week.