THE ESJ and Sons Construction presented the concept and design to the members of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC)- Technical Working Group (TWG) on Monday, March 4, for the Bacolod City College (BCC) site development project.
Architect Ziebert Rigg Pestano, of ESJ and Sons Construction, said they presented the master plan of the BCC’s project to be constructed in a 19,000 square meter lot within the existing main campus of BCC in Barangay Taculing.
“We will build three structures and renovations of the existing main building of BCC,” he said.
These structures include an information system’s building, activity building, and administration building. These will be built with air-conditioning units.
The ESJ and Sons Construction was earlier declared the lone bidder for the BCC site development project, which has an Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) of P350 million.
Pestano said they are also proposing to build the road networks, roadways and covered walkways of BCC.
“We are hopeful to pass this bidding,” he said.
Also present in the oral presentation were members of the BAC-TWG, Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran.
City Assessor Maphilindo Polvora, chairman of BAC, said he will wait the recommendation of the TWG, which was led by Atty. Vicente Petierre, if the bidder complied with the technical requirement.
After the oral presentation, he said that they will hold the opening of the financial bid of ESJ and Sons Construction on Tuesday, March 5, at the MassKara Hall.
For his part, Leonardia said the BCC site development and facilities project is part of the city’s priority projects to be funded by the P1.7 billion loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).
Other projects are the development of Progreso Village Relocation site worth P350 million: construction of roads and bridges, P200 million; and the development of Bacolod MassKara Coliseum, P800 million.
“At least, we were given an idea of what is to expect for the BCC site development project,” Leonardia said.
He said the construction of the BCC’s project should also be compliant with Commission on Higher Education (Ched) that is why there is an activity center because it is one of the requirements for the Ched’s accreditation someday.
He added that there’s no bidding yet for the Bacolod MassKara Coliseum development project.
Moreover, the mayor scored his critics for the conduct of bidding of the city’s priority projects.
“It doesn’t mean that because they filed a case, we will stop the implementation of the projects. If the court will order to stop these, so we will stop. The saboteurs want to stop these projects so why we should give it to them,” Leonardia said.
It can be recalled that a civil complaint involving the P1.7 billion loan, which will fund the city’s four flagship projects, was filed in January.
Named respondents were Leonardia, Familiaran; Councilors Caesar Distrito, Cindy Rojas, Renecito Novero, Em Ang, Elmer Sy, Ana Marie Palermo, Dindo Ramos, Bartolome Orola, Sonya Verdeflor, Lady Gles Gonzales-Pallen, and Ayesha Joy Villaflor; City Council Secretary Vicente Petierre III; City Treasurer Giovanni Balalilhe; City Budget Officer Maria Imelda Williams; City Accountant Corazon Cardel; and DBP Negros Occidental Lending Center head Bernardo Catillion Jr.
It was former vice mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, former councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, and businessman Antonio Wong who filed the civil case for certiorari, prohibition, and annulment of contract with a prayer for a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and/or preliminary mandatory injunction.