BAGUIO CITY – Anti-corruption advocates in the region criticized the alleged substandard and delayed implementation of three infrastructure projects under the regional office of the public works department that resulted to slippages by the contractors to the detriment of the general public.
Salvador Liked identified the defective projects with 15 percent slippage of the contractors as the Alfonso Lista-Aurora boundary road being undertaken by CR Domingo Construction and Power Development Inc. that recorded a negative 15.63 percent slippage; junction Talubin-Barlig-Natonin-Paracelis-Calaccad Road implemented by Fiat Construction Services and MG Samidan and Tadian General Construction joint venture that registered a negative 22..93 percent slippage and the Baguio-Bontoc Road, particularly at Tomay, La Trinidad, Benguet being undertaken by EKC Construction and Aggregates with a negative 61.82 percent slippage.
“I firmly believe that a negative 15.63 percent which remarks and problems encountered is project on-going, terminal stage, warning or notice to terminate contract issued to the contractor is an action worth looking at, hence, when the project reaches a negative 20 percent slippage, it should have been already terminated, much more for negative 61.82 percent slippage,” Liked stressed.
He challenged the DPWH-CAR officials to be transparent about the liquidated damages imposed by the agency that was imposed upon the erring contractors granting their projects were still on-going.
According to him, the public had suffered too much with the delayed implementation of the projects over the past several months but it seems the appeal of the people for the agency to impose the necessary sanctions against the contractors has fallen on deaf ears, thus, residents traversing the said roadlines suffer from the alleged incompetence of the public works implementers.
Liked claimed it seems that the DPWH-CAR officials are being given the run around by the contractors because of their alleged failure to strictly and fairly implement the rules and regulations governing the implementation of projects and the imposition of penalties to erring contractors over the past several years.
On the rehabilitation, reconstruction and upgrading of damaged paved national roads, including drainage based on pavement management systems and highway development and management of the Baguio-Bontoc Road under contract with EKC Construction and Aggregates, Engr. Ismael B. dela Cruz, project engineer of the said controversial project, claimed he had always been coordinating with the contractor and he was constantly reminded of the recorded slippage incurred by the project.
He explained at present, the contractor’s accomplished had reportedly improved since the contractor had provided additional resources and deployed two teams for the concreting works.
Further, the contractor had committed to complete the project by this month which is the revised contract expiry date, thus, if the time extension that they have requested, is approved, otherwise, the contractor will be subjected to the required liquidated damages.
By HENT
Mr. Liked, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this town is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.