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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply as follows:- The Ministry is aware that the contract for the above captioned project was awarded to Victory Construction Company Limited at the tender sum of Kshs1,895,094,559. The initial scope of the project was approximately 43 kilometres comprising of 40 kilometres of Makutano-Kikima-Kalawani Road D516, Kalawani-Tawa Road D517, Tawa-Kakuswi Road D513 and three kilometres of Kikima market access roads. (a)The contract was awarded on 13th June, 2007 and the contract period was 24 months with the date of completion being 30th September, 2009. The contract was granted an extension of time of 68.3 weeks which revised the completion date to 5th February, 2011. The contractor has appealled for more extension of time under claim No.3 which is being evaluated. (b)The project has taken a long time to complete due to the following:- (i) That the massive earth works excavation on the hilly terrain was more than anticipated. (ii) Heavy rock drilling and blasting from Kalawani shopping Centre up to Tuvilani that was not anticipated in the preparation of the tender documents which included procurement of explosives, a task that takes time, clearing blasted materials, then taking levels before construction commences and it is quite involving. The resident engineer for the project carried out an appraisal of the project and forwarded the appraised bills of quantities to the Ministry, subsequent to which an evaluation committee was appointed to evaluate the resident engineer’s submission. The evaluation committee finalized the report and recommended that the contract be wound up at the original contract sum of Kshs1,895,094,559 to cover approximately 29 kilometres of the completed road. This decision to vary the works due to the high increase of quantities and variation of prices of inputs such as cement and bitumen which could not be accommodated within the statutory 15 per cent of the contract sum was communicated to the contractor for concurrence and was upheld by the corporation tender committee. (c)The total amount of payments made to date is Kshs1,572,419,368. The proposed budgetary allocation for this financial year is Kshs300 million, subject to availability of funds. (d)The contractor has not left the site but has moved his equipment to his yard at Tawa Market since he has not been paid for the work done as a result of budgetary constraints. The amount owed is Kshs98,031,490. The removal of the equipment from other stations along the road project was done in order to reduce the cost incurred in maintaining security. (e)The current project will end at Kikima Market after the earlier contract has been revised in order to accommodate excess quantities in earth works and excavation in rock and variation of prices of inputs. The remaining section between Kikima-Kyambalasi Junction - C99 - will be tendered afresh as phase two of the project whose contract document is under preparation. The new project is anticipated to take 12 months and procurement will commence when the budgetary portion is clarified. This document is signed by Eng. P.C. Kilimo, for Principal Secretary, Infrastructure Ministry. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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