Provincial Roads Improvement Sector Project

The bid value of the project consultant was found to be at lower side. Road design should have been the sole responsibility of the project consultant and he should not have been subcontracted and fully passed the task on to a less experienced and capable provincial consulting firms with low subcontract value. This resulted in poor quality of surveys and detailed design works and a need to correct the design during implementation but also in substandard designs at certain locations. Inadequate payment by the project consultant to provincial consulting firm meant that the proper and necessary engineering surveys were not done at all locations.