DILG’s Roxas urged: Probe P11-M Mt Province projects

By Gina Dizon    

PARACELIS, Mountain Province -- The bids and awards committee chaired by municipal cooperative officer  Roberto Dinanas  is under question for  allegedly favoring  highest bidders  in separate P8.3 million and  P3 million infrastructure projects  at the “gross disadvantage of the government.” 

Concerned resident and complainant Albert Basilan in his affidavit-appeal asked Department of Interior and Local Government Sec. Mar Roxas to investigate the bidding process, suspend implementation, cancel the biddings done and conduct re-bidding of the same in furtherance of the national government’s call for “matuwid na daan.”

The P8.3 million project- opening /construction of access road-National Irrigation Authority - which should have been  ‘Upper Butigue  small reservoir  impounding project (access road phase 1) ’- was won by MGSamidan who bid P8.27 million, P2.7 million higher than the lowest bid at P5.5 million by  Kalinga Builders. 

Other bidders were JJA construction with its bid of P5.7 million and CNG construction with P6.3 million.   

Basilan said Kalinga Builders was post evaluated and awarded the project then disqualified including JJA Construction and CNG Construction. 

A complaint was filed by disqualified contractors citing need for pre procurement conference but “BAC refused to receive this.”

Basilan noted that MGSamidan Construction incurred up to 79.99% slippages in its various projects as noted by the Commission on Audit regional cluster director Teresita Pajara in an audit report.

In another  P3 million project- construction of office building- which should have been  ‘Upper Butigue small reservoir impounding project (construction of office facility) BAC  awarded  the  project to Olsim Construction, highest bidder at P2.88  higher than the bid of  lowest bidder CNG Construction at P2.4 million. Olsim Construction is a sister company of  MGSamidan  Construction it was learned.