Provincial Administration Center transfer still under negotiation

Demolition of the dilapidated Provincial Administration Center of Negros Occidental was stalled due to Covid-19 pandemic. The building is still occupied by medical frontliners of the province. (Contributed Photo)
Demolition of the dilapidated Provincial Administration Center of Negros Occidental was stalled due to Covid-19 pandemic. The building is still occupied by medical frontliners of the province. (Contributed Photo)

If negotiations regarding the transfer of the New Provincial Administration Center (PAC) in Talisay City fails, the option is to go on with the project and build it in front of the National Bureau of Investigation-Bacolod Office along Aguinaldo Street which is the original site.

“The province will be left with no choice but go by the contract and have the construction at it's original site,” Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said, adding that he will have to discuss with the contractor Dynamic Builders and Construction Corp. the options on how to go about with the project.

Lacson said there's already a ruling from the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) that a new bidding for project has to be conducted.

"I have not talked to any representative yet of Dynamic Builders, you all know the situation there, so we'll see if I have to hear word, if the contractor is amenable to that," he said.

The governor said that the contractor can always take legal option because it's a valid contract but they need to “hear their end first.”

The project was won by Dynamic Builders in a bidding held during the administration of the late Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr.

During the early part of the negotiations, the province was not able to take action because the area is not cleared and also because there were plans to transfer the PAC to Talisay City, Lacson said.

"There's delay already but I don’t think it's their (contractor) fault," Lacson stressed.

The nearly P1-billion new PAC will be built on a 25-hectare property owned by the province along the Bacolod Silay Airport Access Road in Talisay City based on the Capitol plans.

The project was already awarded to the winning contractor, the Dynamic Builders and Construction Corp., that has already been paid of the usual 15 percent advance payment for its mobilization fund.

Provincial Administrator Atty. Rayfrando Diaz II earlier said the rebidding would be made if the contractor agrees to return the advance payment to the province.

He also explained that the delay of the project implementation is due to the Covid-19 pandemic.*

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