Disputed and Potentially Disputed Items and Other

Issues

1.15.1 Disputed and Potentially Disputed Items

As expected, we have encountered issues that are disputed, or

which could potentially be a dispute and which could or had given
rise to claims from the WPC or for which we can have the option of
paying the WPC at rates lower than what they had tendered for.
These issues arose from problems we had encountered in the
contract documents (Bill of Quantities (BQ) and conflicts between
documents within the contract document), design problems or even
late issuance of unencumbered land. These are listed in Section
9.1.

The drainage design issue encountered at ABJ is near resolution with

revised drawings issued while those at SPJ is still being looked into.
Drainage design issue was also discovered at PJS recently,
necessitating a review of the drainage design between ch 12+650
to ch 15+850 and between ch 35+900 to ch 37+000. In the
interim, the work at these 2 stretches was forced to be suspended
pending a redesign. In SPJ, a new issue with respect to the drafting
of the BQ was discovered. Standard drawings show the need for
subsoil drain beneath the roadside drain at areas with more than2
cut slopes. Such item was left out in the BQ. As this is a recent
item, it will only be included in the December report.

Although such issues as described above are commonly

encountered in construction projects, it seems that the number of
such issues we had identified to date is on the high side. They have
to be managed, however. All packages do keep a register of
disputed/potentially disputed items and will update/report and work
closely with the Contracts Department in the Head Office in order to
manage them.