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Special inspectorate to monitor State contracts

Dec 18, 2015 News

Government is set to re-introduce a special unit of engineers to help monitor its multi-million dollar contracts across the country.
According to Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, the unit, which was once under the Ministry of Public Works, was scrapped some years now.
The move for the re-introduction of the inspectorate unit of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure would come at a time when there have been increasing calls for more monitoring of State contracts to ensure they are in keeping with the requirements.
Over time, consultants hired by Government to oversee State contracts have been accused of taking bribes to allow sub-standard work. There have been several cases across the country of roads breaking up or bridges and wharves collapsing after a few mornings.
It is the intention for the inspectorate department to regularly check ongoing projects and ensure they are being executed in keeping with the bills of quantities and other quality control data, the Minister explained.
The idea is to ensure that contractors do not produce sub-standard work.
Trotman noted that in the past, projects were plagued with shoddy and sub-standard work even resulting in cost and time overruns. Among other things, inspectors will be charged with monitoring contractors to ensure health and safety systems are observed.
With the current Minister David Patterson himself a quantity surveyor, Trotman was of the view that the unit will comprise persons with engineering and construction backgrounds.
Government will be pushing for more community involvement in the process to ensure a wider monitoring of projects.
The Minister, in his arguments for the special unit, referred to a Secondary school at Kato in the hinterland, which has been under construction for more than a year, and is still unfurnished. It is likely to surpass the $1B cost mark, making it the most expensive school ever in the country.

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