An infrastructure-oriented thinktank said CLTG Builders had already been awarded above-P100M contracts even before the Duterte administration.
“CLTG Builders won DPWH contracts worth P448.8-M in 2014, which is larger than the contracts won by the firm in 2016 and 2017, comprising only one and a half years of the Duterte administration.”
This was the statement of Terry Ridon, Infrawatch PH convenor and former urban poor chief of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“The value of the contracts won by CLTG Builders during the Duterte administration are equivalent to less than forty-percent of all its projects from 2010. In fact, taken in context with the P448.8-M won by the firm in 2015 and the P200.7M won in 2014, it is difficult to make an objective assessment that the status of Bong Go as Special Assistant to the President had any influence on the projects won by his father’s company.”
ROW issues delay most infra projects
On the other hand, Ridon said road right of way issues are ‘real, legitimate reasons’ as to why public works projects have been delayed, but these cannot be attributed to contractors.
“ROW issues are resolved by government, especially those involving informal settlers. The President has made a presidential pronouncement that there will be no demolitions without relocation for affected families, and government has made the commitment that no shortcuts will be made in this regard.”
RIdon however said that it is a different matter if the delay is attributable to the contractor’s own delay in implementing the project.
“Infrastructure agencies like the DPWH and the NHA have their mechanisms for protest, penalties and contract termination in the event private contractors’ are remiss in their obligations in finishing a project within an agreed schedule.”
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Ridon said what matters is that contractors’ finish their obligation during the agreed schedule, and face penalties in the event of failure or delay.
Different from Calida
Ridon also said issues of conflict of interest might not arise in these public works contracts because CLTG Builders is a single proprietorship owned by SAP Bong Go’s father, and not an incorporated entity.
“Among the tests in conflict of interest is whether a public official is among the controlling stockholders or management of a company subject of public transactions. As CLTG Builders is merely a single proprietorship created as far back as 1993 by Desiderio L. Go, it is hard to say how conflict of interest can arise on these projects as SAP Go cannot even be a stockholder in his father’s company.”
Ridon said this matter is unlike the problems besetting Solicitor General Jose Calida’s security agency, in which he is accused of serving as president, controlling stockholder and official contact person of Vigilant Investigative and Security Agency.
“In the case of Solgen Calida, he was continuing to serve as contact person in government transactions involving his agency, supposedly including security contracts with the Department of Justice.”