BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—The Department of Public Works and Highways has assured locals that the national road projects previously implemented in the province have passed the quality standards of the agency.
Engineer Rodolfo Torralba, district engineer of the DPWH’s First Engineering District here, in a letter to Vice Gov. Lambert Galima Jr., said the department’s Central and Regional offices conduct a quarterly quality assurance inspection of projects being implemented in the province, which are consolidated annually.
“Consequently, we have received a high Annual Rating on Quality Control Performance on project implementation,” Torralba said in the letter, a copy of which the Manila Standard was furnished.
Torralba made the report after the provincial board earlier approved a resolution seeking an inquiry on the implementation of various road projects in the province, which allegedly met their “untimely and/or early deterioration.”
Torralba said their 2015 rating on ARQCP contained in a memorandum dated March 18, 2016 showed 83.18 percent, ranking them at 92nd out of the 171 district offices in the country.
The district’s 2016 ARQCP was at 79.73 percent based on a memorandum dated February 16, 2016, putting it at 41st.
Torralba said that Department Order No. 233 series of 2016, revising limits of delegated authority to regional directors and district engineers, revealed the department’s limitations based on approved Detailed Engineering Design, As Staked and As Built Plans, Program of Work, Approved Budget for the Contract and Procure and Implement Projects.
Projects above P200 million were under the authority of the DPWH Central Office. Projects above P50 million up to P200 million were for the Regional Office, and projets P50 million and below were District Office supervised.
The DPWH “is ready and willing to cooperate with other agencies in addressing poor traffic and road safety management here,” Torralba added.
“Please furnish us copies of accident reports for us to ascertain the exact location of the accident in order to identify the contractor/s involved, and the respective implementing office, as much as there are two district offices here and also to ascertain the actual cause of accidents,” he told Galima in his letter.
Torralba also denied the deterioration of quality of previously constructed road projects in the province, citing their latest ARQCP ratings.
“Furnish us with data on the name, location and the year the project was completed, so that we can provide you with the project profiles for accurate reporting,” he told the vice governor.