CASTELO SEEKS BLACKLISTING OF ERRING CONTRACTORS IN EDSA REBLOCKING Rep. Winston “Winnie” Castelo (Liberal Party, 2nd District of Quezon City) today sought the immediate blacklisting of private contractors, which have failed to meet their deadline in the reblocking of portions of the 26-kilometer Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). In a statement, Castelo, chair of the House committee on Metro Manila development, urged the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to reveal the identities of these private contractors to enable the public to know them. “These private contractors, which do not have any sense of urgency and refuse to acknowledge the public interest in their contracts with government should be forever barred from doing business with the state,” Castelo said in a statement. “They have themselves to blame,” Castelo said. According to Castelo, the Metro Manila Development Authority, through its chair, Francis Tolentino, had made it clear that the private contractors, which the DPWH had tapped for the reblocking, or repair, of EDSA, had until today to complete its work. But these private contractors did not have the sense of urgency to complete its work, the deadline of which has been explicitly included in their contracts, Castelo said. “They have it coming. They were so complacent to fail to complete their works,” Castelo said. Castelo said the DPWH should enforce the clauses where private contractors have to pay the government enormous sums for every day of delay of their contracted works. “We have to to teach them a lesson,” Castelo said. #
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:02:38 +0000
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