The Sangguniang Panlungsod authorized Bacolod Mayor Monico Puentevella to sign the P90 million garbage hauling contract with Enviroking Corporation, during a special session yesterday.
Councilor Caesar Distrito yesterday said he refused to vote in favor of the contract because under R.A. 9184, before a contractor is allowed to bid, it should have an experience of 50 percent of the Approved Budget of the Contract. Since the ABC is P90 million, Enviroking should have an experience of P45 million single and not aggregate contract. An Aggregate contract is only allowed if there was a failure of bidding, he said. In this case, there was no failure of bidding since the Bids and Awards Committee only disqualified the other bidder (IPM Construction) for a minor defect, Distrito said. “They also included in the experience the hospital waste contract, when the toxic and hospital wastes are supposed to be separated from the general waste. So EnviroKing qualified,” he said. Distrito said the contract of P90 million will cover 10 months, which means that the city will have to pay Enviroking P9 million a month, regardless of the volume of garbage it will collect. He cited, for example, that if the garbage truck of the contractor breaks down and it fails to collect garbage for one day, the city will still have to pay it P9 million a month. That is why he voted in the negative, he said. Distrito said he is in favor of the privatization of garbage collection but not this kind of provision in the contract which he considers disadvantageous to the city. The contract of the city with Enviroking Corporation on sustainable system of solid waste hauling and disposal services covers the period March 1 to December 31, in the amount of P89,970,000. Enviroking Corporation general manager Erwin Buot assured the legislators that they will render door-to-door service in the 61 barangays of Bacolod City. He said they will provide a separate garbage truck to collect garbage in the public markets and a separate one for hospital wastes. He also said they have shipped 20 units of garbage trucks from Manila to Bacolod. Verdeflor said Enviroking has been collecting the garbage of San Juan, Metro Manila, and other cities in Manila for more than 20 years already. BAC chairman Jerome Solinap said only Enviroking Corporation qualified because they were informed by Metrowaste Solidwaste Management, whose contract with the city expires today, that it is no longer interested in renewing its contract with Bacolod City. Present during the special session were Councilors El Cid Familiaran, Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Sonya Verdeflor, Ana Marie Palermo, Claudio Puentevella, Noli Villarosa, Archie Baribar,and Wilson Gamboa, Jr., who all belong to the majority bock. Also present were Councilors Roberto Rojas and Alex Paglumotan, Department of Public Services head Josephus Cerna.*CGS Visayan Daily Star
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