Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The contractor complained about the delay in payment of construction of the bridge Kerch – RBC

Building a bridge across the Kerch Strait in the Tuzla island, April 21, 2016

Photo: Sergei Bobylev / TASS

Financing the construction of the bridge Kerch is delayed, the contractor complained to the CEO “Stroygazmontazh” in a letter to the Ministry of Transport. In 2016, large gosstroyki transferred to treasury support

Andrew Kirilenko, CEO building a Kerch Bridge «Stroygazmontazh” in late May, wrote a letter to the first Deputy Ministry of Transport Eugene Dietrich , and chapter Rosavtodor Roman Starovoit, which complained about the delay in the payment of work performed on the project, According to Forbes, with reference to the existing text of the letter.

According to the newspaper, Kirilenko in a letter said that due to delays in the receipt of funding “Stroygazmontazh” can not build a bridge planned rate and to invest in the purchase of expensive construction equipment. According to him, the Ministry of Transport , the main manager of funds, and Rosavtodor , which the customer can not decide question of payments from February 2016, when it was approved by the state examination of the project bridge. “On the construction of the facility has developed an extremely critical situation”, – says CEO “Stroygazmontazh»

In the offices of the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Road Agency Forbes confirmed that they had received a letter and sent it to the work.. According to the Federal Road Agency, all the necessary decisions were taken and sent to the Ministry of Transport.

The representative of the Ministry of Transport said that any -or problems with financing the construction of the bridge “excluded» . He explained , that the planned amount for 2016 for the project has already been allocated from the budget, but to spend it will be possible only after the translation state contract on treasury support. According to him, all the documents for this transition directed to the government, the changes will be approved before the end of June.

The representative of “Stroygazmontazh” at the time of publication did not respond to Forbes request.

Forbes source said that the advance received « Stroygazmontazh “completely exhausted, and at the construction site did not have enough of expensive equipment. At the same time, he noted that the necessary equipment is not easy to get: all the “piece” and foreign ships within 4-7 months. “And we are stuck in a bureaucratic pit” -. He emphasized

According to the public procurement portal, the last time means the company received December 1, 2015, According to Forbes . Overall, 48.9 billion rubles were transferred last year. In 2016 it planned another 65.4 billion rubles.

Since 2016 large state construction projects move from the usual extended banking to treasury. This method of funding requires that the general contractor, subcontractors and suppliers are opening treasury accounts, and it allows the state to directly control the flow of funds.

On the need to build a road and rail bridge across the Kerch Strait authorities said in 2014. General Contractor for construction in January 2015 without competition appointed « Stroygazmontazh », 100% of which controls the billionaire Arkady Rothenberg (75 th place in the ranking of 200 richest businessmen of Russia , worth an estimated $ 1 billion) . Government Contract was signed on 17 February 2015. The labor movement on the bridge should be open in December 2018, and finally hand over the object – in June 2019

Kerch bridge was left without funding

Kerch bridge was left without funding

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