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MANDAUE CITY, Philippines - The court has created a three-person committee to appraise the works on the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in Mandaue City that were not covered by a contract.
Regional Trial Court Judge Ester Veloso of Branch 6 tasked the committee to give its report within 60 days after the final person in the committee is named.
The committee is composed of a representative of the Cebu provincial government, which owns the CICC; a representative of WT Construction Inc., which made the CICC; and a representative of the Commission on Audit in Central Visayas (COA-7).
Only the COA-7 member is still to be named.
The creation of the committee stemmed from a suggestion of lawyer Makilito Mahinay, counsel of WT Construction, which sued the Capitol for its failure to pay the company for additional work worth P261 million that provincial officials asked them to do but was not covered by documentation due to time constraints.
Capitol built the CICC for use during the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in January last year.
The Capitol had earlier pegged the cost of the CICC at P581 million, not including the additional work.
Capitol officials earlier said it would not pay for the additional work because it was not covered by a contract, prompting the contractor to sue.
Mahinay said the committee’s findings should prove the value of the additional works that WT Constriction undertook on the CICC.
Lawyers of the Cebu provincial government welcomed the idea.
On the committee, the province is represented by Cebu Provincial Engineer Eulogio Pelayre, while engineer Lorenzo Villaber represents WT Construction.
Judge Veloso directed COA-7 to name a representative within five days of the agency’s receipt of her notice.
