$400M contract signed with 15 local contractors to upgrade roads

– road development expected to complete before last quarter

– Regions, 3, 4 and 5 among others to receive improve roads

– contractors will mobilise construction immediately

– contracts would provide for the upgrading and consolidating of housing schemes – Min. Bulkan

– “We will not tolerate unnecessary variation and poor-quality work” – CHPA

DPI, Guyana, Wednesday, April 24, 2019

One of the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s (CH&PA) mandates is to consolidate infrastructure within existing housing schemes. On Wednesday, April 24, the agency signed a $400M contract with fifteen contractors to upgrade roads in more than five regions.

Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan and CH&PA’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lelon Saul were present at the signing. The contractors were called on to be committed to delivering quality products.

“We will not tolerate unnecessary variation and poor-quality work; we have a robust monitor and control mechanism. Likewise, it is expected that you will have your own monitoring and control mechanism for the delivery of quality products,” Saul said, adding that the project will have a positive impact on the country’s economy.

Minister Bulkan explained that the contracts would provide for the upgrading and consolidating of housing schemes.

“This administration has been engaged in the past three years, with the task of consolidating the infrastructure within housing schemes that we inherited where the infrastructure was incomplete, where roads were not to the proper standards, the drains, the water supply, the electricity. In excess to $4Billion dollars, to date has been expended in the consolidation exercise in existing Housing Scheme,” the minister noted.

Among the schemes that will benefit are those in Region 3 – La Parfait Harmonie, Belle West and Zeelugt Phase Two; Region Four – Herstelling, Farm Phase one, Good Hope Phase 2, and Section D Non-Pariel; and Tabatinga, Lethem, in Region 9.

The work will commence as early as next month and is expected to be completed before the end of the last quarter.

Some of the contracting companies listed on the project are XL Engineering, Puran Brothers Disposal Incorporated, Eron Lall Civil Works, Bardon Construction Services, Guyamerica Construction Incorporated, among others.

Ayana George.

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