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CPA cancels generator project
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Posted on Aug 31 2008
The Commonwealth Ports Authority has canceled the planned installation of a third generator at Francisco C. Ada International Airport to power key facilities amid protests over how the company tasked with completing the work was selected.
In an Aug. 27 letter, acting CPA executive director Lee Cabrera said the agency has cancelled the project and will issue a modified request for proposals in the near future to begin the process of selecting a contractor for it once again.
The generator project, according to the letter, stems from Federal Aviation Administration concerns aired in July that the local airport’s tower and firefighting facility are “off the grid” and in need of added electrical power, Cabrera said in an interview last week.
After releasing a request for proposals, CPA had initially hired contracting company GPPC to take up the project, a move that riled Seafix Inc., which had also submitted a proposal for it. According to the letter, Seafix had argued that, among issues, GPPC’s proposal lacks key details and plans to rehabilitate the other two generators at the facilities, plans the company said were required by CPA’s request for proposals.
However, Cabrera denies those protests in the letter, saying plans for the other two generators were not a required element of proposals for the project and that while GPPC’s initial submission had certain missing elements, CPA later got the details it needed from the company.
“Seafix and other proposers were afforded a full opportunity to pose questions regarding the scope of work precisely to avoid any misconstructions by a proposer,” Cabrera writes.
On the protest over GPPC’s proposal, he adds that CPA “took the initiative to confirm that specific items were included” in it.
Cancellation of the project comes after the airport earlier this month suffered a three-hour power outage that stranded many tourists and prompted an apology from CPA. The outage was made worse by the lack of a generator at the airport.
