USA Fanter strongly denies all falsehoods alleged by the IPI statement\u2014false reports, forged project quantity numbers, increased units of materials used and prices, and double accrued charges. Ridiculous! <\/p>\n
USA Fanter has been in the business as a general contractor since 1992 and has never been accused of lying, falsifying reports, not paying their employees, not paying their bills, or had their offices raided by the FBI. <\/p>\n
USA Fanter is a duly licensed casino non-gaming vendor. <\/p>\n
A good business reputation means everything, especially in a small community like the CNMI. IPI can be assured that USA Fanter will protect itself and its reputation to the fullest extent allowed by law. <\/p>\n
With respect to this project, the facts are as follows: <\/p>\n
1. On May 27, 2019, IPI prepared the solicitation for the required construction work requiring labor, materials, equipment, and installation; <\/p>\n
2. IPI chose USA Fanter\u2019s proposal among other submitted proposals; <\/p>\n
3. IPI prepared the proposed Contract; <\/p>\n
4. On June 24, 2019, after negotiating the final terms of the contract, IPI and USA Fanter executed the IPI-prepared contract; <\/p>\n
5. IPI reviewed and approved all USA Fanter billings over the progress completion period of June 24, 2019 to Sept. 24, 2019. USA Fanter had transmitted six billings\u2014an initial billing for a down payment and followed by five work progress billings.<\/p>\n
6. The IPI project site engineer, in an email dated Sept. 27, 2019, approved the fifth work progress billing with the following message:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve no adverse comments with your revised (progress) billing No. 5 Please submit work done invoice formally for our proceed payment application accordingly\/ Thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n
What did the IPI site engineer approve? A progress completion of 41.1%, totaling $2.39 million of the total contract of $5.8 million.<\/p>\n
7. IPI paid only $300,000 in August 2019 after a threatened notice-of-work stoppage was issued on Aug. 20, 2019.<\/p>\n
USA Fanter is willing to negotiate a duly executed contract (that they themselves prepared and with required work-in-progress) with the obvious intent to force USA Fanter to discount their billings and settle for much less than what was contracted.<\/p>\n
USA Fanter has engaged the services of an attorney for collection. <\/p>\n
Doing business with IPI, the exclusive casino licensee, should NOT be a risk.<\/p>\n
The regulatory process is supposed to equally protect IPI, the CNMI, and vendors for their respective interests. Something has gone horribly wrong and, sadly, local vendors are being victimized.<\/p>\n
Guocao Qian<\/strong> USA Fanter strongly denies all falsehoods alleged by the IPI statement\u2014false reports, forged project quantity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12497,19608],"class_list":["post-314403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-ipi","tag-usa-fanter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPresident, USA Fanter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"