BCDA asks contractor to explain delay in P21-B expressway project
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) took to task yesterday a major contractor of the R21-billion Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) for further slowing down the construction instead of catching up with work schedule to finish the project on time.
During a recent board meeting, BCDA Chairman Aloysius Santos, after noting the project engineer’s report, urged the Kajima-Obayashi-JFE Engineering-Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (KOJM) joint venture in charge of constructing the 50.5-kilometer Subic-Clark section of the 93.7-kilometer SCTEx to explain the reasons for the slippage or delay that reached the 14.38-percent mark as of May 21, 2007.
A 15-percent delay could be basis for the revocation or pre-termination of its work contract, he said.
Santos noted that in spite of the favorable weather that prevailed over the past two months (March and April), KOJM still incurred more than five percent increase in the slippage from nine percent as of February 28, 2007 to almost 15 percent as of the end of last April. He said that none of the reasons cited by KOJM, including right-of-way (ROW) issues, was attributable to the delay during the two-month period.
The project engineer — Pacific Consultants International-Katahira & Engineers International-Nippon Koei Co. Ltd.(PCI-KEI-NK) consortium — reported to the BCDA board that the KOJM, which is undertaking the 50.5kilometer Package 1 (Subic-to Clark) portion of the SCTEx, repeatedly refused to submit its catch-up plan despite the slippage.
The project engineer brushed aside as irrelevant the "so-called major issues" cited by KOJM as reasons for the delay.
It said that the delay was mainly caused by KOJM’s mismanagement, as well as its failure to deploy efficient field workers and brand-new, Japanmade equipment required by its contract with BCDA.
Earlier this month, in a high-level meeting in Malacanang, Secretary Edgardo Pamintuan, chief of the Subic-Clark Alliance Development Council, also told KOJM to submit its catchup plans.
During a recent board meeting, BCDA Chairman Aloysius Santos, after noting the project engineer’s report, urged the Kajima-Obayashi-JFE Engineering-Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (KOJM) joint venture in charge of constructing the 50.5-kilometer Subic-Clark section of the 93.7-kilometer SCTEx to explain the reasons for the slippage or delay that reached the 14.38-percent mark as of May 21, 2007.
A 15-percent delay could be basis for the revocation or pre-termination of its work contract, he said.
Santos noted that in spite of the favorable weather that prevailed over the past two months (March and April), KOJM still incurred more than five percent increase in the slippage from nine percent as of February 28, 2007 to almost 15 percent as of the end of last April. He said that none of the reasons cited by KOJM, including right-of-way (ROW) issues, was attributable to the delay during the two-month period.
The project engineer — Pacific Consultants International-Katahira & Engineers International-Nippon Koei Co. Ltd.(PCI-KEI-NK) consortium — reported to the BCDA board that the KOJM, which is undertaking the 50.5kilometer Package 1 (Subic-to Clark) portion of the SCTEx, repeatedly refused to submit its catch-up plan despite the slippage.
The project engineer brushed aside as irrelevant the "so-called major issues" cited by KOJM as reasons for the delay.
It said that the delay was mainly caused by KOJM’s mismanagement, as well as its failure to deploy efficient field workers and brand-new, Japanmade equipment required by its contract with BCDA.
Earlier this month, in a high-level meeting in Malacanang, Secretary Edgardo Pamintuan, chief of the Subic-Clark Alliance Development Council, also told KOJM to submit its catchup plans.
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