“The problem is not with the people who are actually doing the repairs at the power plants,” Cruz said as he blamed “CUC’s and the executive branch’s failure, cover-up and complete mismanagement.”
In a letter to Antonio Muna, CUC executive director, Cruz said the Fitial administration is resorting to a “self-interest approach of sole-sourcing” the contract with the DCM group which has a contract to rehabilitate seven of the eight engines at Power Plant 1 in Lower Base.
“This has been nothing but a complete disrespect and dishonor to the taxpayers and consumers of our homeland,” Cruz said.
Aside from the DCM group, the administration also hired the services of other contractors to repair and rehabilitate CUC’s power plants.
The CUC has a contract with Mitsubishi Corp., which was awarded $2.28 million.
The other contractors and the vendors involved for the repair of Power Plant 1 are CB Tech. with a $375,700 contract; SAI Traders, $431,300; Sought Pacific Engineers, $25,440; IMSE BUBA $3,534; and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., $21,910.00 contract.
The rehabilitation and repair projects are not yet completed, Cruz said.
The administration has said that power outages will be minimized once DCM completes its work this month.
The rehabilitation project is supposed to bring the engines to a greater level of efficiency and a savings of $2 million a month in fuel and lubrication costs — but this has not happened, Cruz said.
