📋 Tender Overview
With only more than four months left before the end of contract period on the construction of Caray-Caray Bridge the newly assumed head of the public works department in Biliran engineering district vowed to monitor its implementation.Every other Saturday I go there in the presence of contractors representative what is the update Biliran Engineering District Office BDEO District Engineer Ferdinand A. Briones said during his appearance as guest of PIA Bilirans regular radio program Pulong-Pulong ng Bayan at Radyo Natin-Naval on February 18.Briones reported that based on what he saw the bridges sub-structure or the foundation below was already put in place and it would not take long for it to be erected once the concrete girder will be put on top of it.They have a timeline for their first span the girder will be poured in two to three weeks they can launch put it then another one then there on the other side it will be overlapping because when it is placed then they will buy for the slab . Briones said the contractor already committed that the bridge construction will be substantially completed by July this year. He clarified that substantial accomplishment means almost 89 90 or 91 percent accomplishment and the minor work items will be done later like riprap painting and finishing.Briones added that he even asked Eastern Visayas DPWH Regional Director Nerie D. Bueno if the BDEO can intervene on the construction of the Caray-Caray Bridge project like putting a little bit of pressure on the contractor and to witness if there will be testing that will be done while the construction is on-going.We are interfering with the district because we have no hands there because we do not have a project but here in our area the reflection of the people the notion of the people why is it so long DPWH is the word not even that district or region but generalized man yan Briones said.He further clarified that the DPWH Regional Office is the one responsible in making the plan bidding and in the continuation of the project construction. Briones added that the DPWH regional office will impose liquidated damages based on the computation once the project is completed.The project will not be paid in full since due to deduction on the contract as penalty for the delay and that will be a saving for the government he said. nbqrsvPIA Biliran
