Lone
bidder for relocation site
project passes evaluation
By RANIE S. AZUE
BACOLOD City -- The lone bidder for the P100-million offsite
development of a relocation site project passed the post-qualification
evaluation of the Technical Working Group of the Bids and
Awards Committee (BAC).
With this, the project contract is expected
to be awarded to Alfies Construction and Construction Supply,
said Engineer Ephraem Hechanova of the City Engineer’s
Office. He is also the project engineer.
The relocation site sits on the controversial
Andal/Antigua (Arao) properties. Its development will be financed
by a loan from the Philippine Veterans Bank.
According to Hechanova, Young Builders Construction
withdrew, making Alfies Construction and Construction Supply
the lone bidder left.
After the finalization of the recommendations
from BAC to Mayor Evelio Leonardia, a contract signing will
be held, and soon after, the Notice to Proceed will be given
to the contractor to start the project.
The offsite development includes survey works,
concrete paving, drainage and slope protection, earth works,
water system construction, primary and secondary power distribution
system works and concreting of access road from the main highway
(Granada road) to the proposed relocation site in the Arao
properties traversing the existing Abada-Escay relocation
site.
Alfies Construction tendered a bid of P99,722,225.19
for the development of 15 hectares of the proposed new relocation
site out of the P99,979,334.87 Approved Budget for Contract
(ABC) prepared by the City Engineer’s Office.
Hechanova said the actual implementation
of the project would begin before the start of the Commission
on Elections ban on the 26th of March.
The city government of Bacolod got a loan
worth P250 million from the Philippine Veterans Bank for the
project; P150 million of this is for the purchase of the Arao
properties; the remaining P100 million is for the site development.
Oppositors to the project had filed cases
before the Regional Trial Court and the Provincial Agrarian
Reform Adjudication Board (PARAB), but they failed to stop
it./PN
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