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P107 million in Cagayan de Oro City projects not complete, unimplemented since 1999 – COA

September 26, 2008

By Lizanilla J. Amarga

AROUND P107 million in priority projects of the City Government of Cagayan de Oro since 1999 to 2007 were not implemented or not completed in time as stipulated in their respective project contracts, state auditors reported.

The Commission on Audit (COA) in its recently-released Annual Audit Report revealed that 21 infrastructure projects covering priority projects of the City for CY 1999 to 2007 costing P106,689,007.00 were not implemented or not completed on time as planned.

COA team leader state auditor Olivia Flores said the various reasons provided for the non-implementation or non-completion of such projects include revisions of plans due to change orders, acquisition of road right-of-way and among others.

“Because of the failure of the City Government to implement and complete projects on time, such as water works system, roads, school fence, and telephone system, the affected constituents were deprived of the social and economic benefits that could have been derived had these projects been completed on time,” she said in her report.

She added that the “non-completion of roads had also caused undue inconvenience and discomforts to the traveling public, while the non-completion of school facilities has deprived school children of additional facilities necessary for delivering quality education.”

Flores said the “prime consideration” of the government for entering into a contract is the completion of the infrastructure within a stipulated period.

“Accordingly, contracting parties are bound to adhere faithfully to the agreed terms and conditions of the contract,” she said.

Flores pointed out that this delay violates the tenets of the 1987 Constitution which declares that it is policy of the State that all resources of the government shall be managed, expended or utilized in accordance with law with a view of ensuring efficiency, economy and effectiveness in the operations of government.

She also cited Section 17.6 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations-A of RA 9184 or the Government Procurement Act which provides that no bidding and award of contract for infrastructure projects shall be made unless the detailed engineering investigation, surveys and designs including right of way for the project have been sufficiently carried out.

Flores said these above project requirements must still be duly approved in accordance with the standards and specifications prescribed by the head of the procuring entity concerned or his duly authorized representative.

She said that the same procurement law provides that necessary field surveys and investigations which may include aerial, hydrographic, topographic, hydrologic, sub-surface, monumenting and other surveys shall be carried out in accordance with the design guidelines, criteria and standards adopted by the agency concerned.

“All survey and investigation works shall be prepared in a manner satisfactory to carry out accurate design and production of plans.

Flore is now recommending that the City immediately settle the Road-right-of-way problem so as not to further delay the completion of the project.

“Henceforth, for the succeeding infra projects see to it that a detailed engineering requirement as required in IRR-A sufficiently carried out before awarding the projects thru Memorandum of Agreement with the barangay, to avoid occurrence of the same deficiencies,” she said.


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