📋 Tender Overview
- A little more than 7% of the project that will benefit 1 million 200 thousand users remains to be completed.Arequipa.- The Comptroller General of the Republic - CGR recommended that the Regional Government of Arequipa (GRA) evaluate alternatives and take steps to guarantee financing to reactivate the construction of the bridge and accesses of the Arequipa - La Joya regional road, a work that has been paralyzed since September 5, 2025, due to the termination of the contract by the contractor.
In the Preventive Control Report No. 039-2025-OCI/5334-SCP, which evaluated the period from September 5 to October 2, 2025, the GRA is recommended to carry out a comprehensive cost-benefit and opportunity analysis, in order to adopt the most efficient decisions, aimed at guaranteeing the timely reactivation of the project, reducing risks of delay and guaranteeing the resources to complete the 7.69% missing from the physical execution of the work.
It should be noted that the contractor terminated the contract for the execution of the work alleging that the regional government did not comply with the provisions of the Arbitration Award of January 31, 2025, which recognized in its favor extensions of the deadline and the recognition of higher general expenses of S/ 3,135,141, including VAT plus interest from March 6, 2023 until the effective date of payment.
At this point, the Comptrollers Office recommended to the regional authority that, in case of proceeding with compliance with the payment established in the Arbitration Award, the competent area carry out the technical, legal and financial verification of the amount to be recognized in favor of the contractor, who requested the payment of S/ 4,314,327 for higher general expenses, readjustments and interests.
Work status
The execution of the bridge and access component of the Arequipa - La Joya regional road began on October 20, 2017 with a budget of S/ 107,549,938 and an execution period of 510 calendar days. During the execution of the work, nine additional benefits and five binding deductive benefits were approved. It was planned to be completed on September 8, 2025 to benefit more than 1 million 200 thousand users.
As of August of this year, a cumulative executed physical progress of 92.31% was reported, pending paving, signage, placement of concrete on boards, New Jersey type walls (safety barrier used as a traffic flow separator), asphalt pavement and access works, which would represent 7.69% of the contract and whose cost amounts to S/ 5,619,396, approximately.
The report prepared by the Institutional Control Body (OCI) of the GRA was communicated to the regional governor with the objective of timely fulfilling the commitments made and implementing the recommendations. Likewise, it is available on the institutional portal of the Comptrollers Office (www.gob.pe/contraloria).
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Arequipa, October 14, 2025
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