The verified report is a requirement being sought by the city’s Contract Termination Review Committee (CTRC) to determine if the termination of contract between the city government and ME Sicat Construction is valid.
Engineer Lowell Corminal, DEPW assistant head and project manager of CCMC, said on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, they already received a copy of the resolution from the CTRC headed by lawyer Carl Vincent Gimena requesting them to submit their assessment on the Phase 4 construction of the seventh to 10th floors of CCMC, but they got delayed in preparing their comments and recommendations.
Corminal, however, refused to reveal the contents of their verified report to the media, saying the decision to publish the report will be up to Mayor Michael Rama.
Gimena said the CTRC cannot proceed to their next step in processing the termination of contract between the city government and the project contractor unless the DEPW would submit a verified report.
Gimena added he would reconvene the members of his committee once the DEPW submits a report so they can make a resolution and have it submitted to Rama.
On Nov. 9, Rama announced that he would terminate the contract of M.E. Sicat Construction, which had been working on the seventh to 10th floors of the new CCMC, as he could no longer bear the delay in the completion of the public hospital, whose construction was started in 2015 during his second term as mayor.
Rama entered into a contract with M.E. Sicat to proceed with the construction of the Cebu City hospital on April 6, 2022.
Engineer Michael Sicat, president of ME Sicat Construction, earlier said he was compliant with the contract and that he had promised to finish the project by November next year. (TPT)