NewsWhore
09-08-2011, 04:30 PM
The construction company in charge of constructing the Bani aqueduct is trying to convince the National Institute for Water and Sewage (INAPA) that the pipes they want to purchase are "just the same," but Inapa says that these are not the water pipes that were described in the bidding process and the pipes being offered are not up to the required standards.
According to Hoy, the Spanish company Acciona Agua is trying to convince Inapa to accept the other pipes. The fact is that the construction should have started, but the company has yet to acquire the needed materials, and while it is normal in this type of contract for the contracting company to purchase its supplies in its homeland, in this case things are even more serious since the pipes that Acciona Agua is trying to import do not meet specifications nor are they from Spain.
What irks local businessmen is that the pipes that the Spanish company wants to import are made of PVC and could be obtained locally with better quality and at a lower price. To make matters even worse, the contract signed with the Dominican government allows for this type of purchase. Apparently the steel tubing that the company intended to import lacks proper documentation in Europe, and this was another of the requisites.
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According to Hoy, the Spanish company Acciona Agua is trying to convince Inapa to accept the other pipes. The fact is that the construction should have started, but the company has yet to acquire the needed materials, and while it is normal in this type of contract for the contracting company to purchase its supplies in its homeland, in this case things are even more serious since the pipes that Acciona Agua is trying to import do not meet specifications nor are they from Spain.
What irks local businessmen is that the pipes that the Spanish company wants to import are made of PVC and could be obtained locally with better quality and at a lower price. To make matters even worse, the contract signed with the Dominican government allows for this type of purchase. Apparently the steel tubing that the company intended to import lacks proper documentation in Europe, and this was another of the requisites.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)