Grading system for contractors working on 202 new roads
Just over 200 residential roads will be built by mid-2012 after an agreement was struck between Transport Malta and contractors. Twenty-nine contractors submitted a tender for work on the 202 roads and, through the new framework agreement, the bidders...
Just over 200 residential roads will be built by mid-2012 after an agreement was struck between Transport Malta and contractors.
Twenty-nine contractors submitted a tender for work on the 202 roads and, through the new framework agreement, the bidders are graded according to experience, available machinery and technical parameters.
The roads will be allocated to the different contractors not only in terms of the least expensive bids but also depending on their track record on quality and ability to finish the job within a stipulated timeframe.
This would not necessitate a long adjudication process for every road and would give contractors more mass and a better vision of the works they would be carrying out, an Infrastructure Ministry spokesman said.
The system brings together contracts issued by Enemalta Corporation, the Road Infrastructure Directorate and the Water Services Cooperation under the umbrella of the Quality Assurance Unit to ensure better supervision of the works being carried out.
The €7.85 million project will seek to complete within 18 months all residential roads in 41 towns and villages that are 70 per cent build up. These include the roads that had to be rebuilt during the office of former Roads Minister Jesmond Mugliett, the spokesman added.
A legal notice bringing together regulations governing roadworks came into force at the beginning of 2010, Roads Minister Austin Gatt said while inspecting works in Tarxien on Tuesday.
The roads will be in Attard, Balzan, Birkirkara, Birżebbuġa, Burmarrad, Dingli, Fgura, Għargħur, Għaxaq, Gudja, Ħamrun, Kalkara, Kirkop, Lija, Luqa, Manikata, Marsa, Marsascala, Marsaxlokk, Mellieħa, Mġarr, Mosta, Mqabba, Msida, Naxxar, Pietà, Qormi, Qrendi, Rabat, Safi, St Julians, St Paul’s Bay, Sta Venera, Siġġiewi, Swieqi, Tarxien, Xagħjra, Żabbar, Żebbuġ, Żejtun and Żurrieq. The names of the roads will be announced in Parliament. Roads in the sister island were not included because they fall under the remit of the Gozo Ministry.