OROQUIETA City – At least 24 infrastructure projects worth P122.683 million was completed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Misamis Occidental, as of April 30, 2013.
The projects amounted to P115.588 million only, after these had been bidden out to the different contractors, resulting in P7.095 million savings for the government, or 5.78 percent of the projects’ total cost, according to DPWH second district Engineer Denise M. Ayag, here.
He said among the sources of funds for the projects were the Basic Education Facilities Fund (BEFF), the Preventive Maintenance Fund (PVMF), Maintenance, Operations and Other Expenses Fund (MOOEF) and savings of the DPWH.
The projects were exempted from the public works ban because their contracts were awarded before the ban took effect last March 29 or that the projects were started even before the ban took effect.
Ayag said the projects, their location and respective worth are as follows: Construction of school buildings using the BEFF—Sinara Bajo and Gata Primary Schools (PS), both of Jimenez, Zamora Elementary School (ES) and Mitazan Integrated School (IS), both of Aloran and Cartagena ES, Plaridel, with P654 thousand each.
Manla and Caluya ES, both of Sapang Dalaga and Mangidkid ES, Plaridel, P664 thousand each; Bunga National High School (NHS), Oroquieta City and Lower Montol ES, Bonifacio, P781 thousand each; and Durias ES and Proceso Alburo Memorial ES, also of Bonifacio, P634 thousand and P1.156 million, respectively.
Asphalt over-laying, 50 millimeter-thick using the PVMF–Jimenez Old Route, Jimenez town worth some P386,000; Calamba-Baliangao Road - P496,000, and Oroquieta-Langcangan Road - P4.572 million.
Bagacay Cadre Road, Ozamis City (P4.799 million); Ozamiz-Oroquieta Road, P12.114 million; Oroquieta City-Calamba Mountain Road, Phase I and Phase II, P1.394 million and P2.594 million, respectively; and of 80mm-thick in Oroquieta City-Calamba Mountain Road, P5.558 million.
Repair/maintenance using the MOOE Fund for the DPWH Building in Tangub City costs P600 thousand and in Ozamiz City -- P700 thousand.
Concreting of shoulders and upgrading from gravel to paved road from the savings of DPWH of the Oroquieta City–Calamba Mountain Road, P11.014 million and P69.842 million, respectively.
Among the contractors of the projects were Alinab Construction and Supplies, GLS Construction and General Merchandise, Misamis Occidental Construction, MBD General Construction, Grace Construction Corporation, Mindanao Rock, Henry S. Oaminal Construction and General Merchandise and the Administration, Ayag said. (PR)