The Commonwealth Ports Authority accused the contractor in the multi-million-dollar West Tinian airport improvement project of breaching its contract, asking the court to award it monetary damages.<\/p>\n
The CPA and its executive director Carlos H. Salas filed with the Superior Court a counterclaim against Telesource CNMI Inc., which earlier sued the authority to stop the latter\u2019s spending of over $1.77 million in retained fund for the project.<\/p>\n
The retained fund represents about 10 percent of the total amount paid to Telesource in connection with the project, which covered the construction of an 8,600-linear foot asphalt concrete runway, the conversion of the 6,000-linear foot runway into a parallel taxiway, and the construction of related crossover, parallel and partial taxiways at the Tinian airport.<\/p>\n
The constructed facility has been in use for more than a year and a half, according to Telesource\u2019s lawyer, Sean Frink, and the company has been claiming the retained fund after completion of the project.<\/p>\n
Besides CPA\u2019s refusal to release the retained fund to Telesource, the authority\u2019s solicitation of services for a \u201ccomplete as-built survey\u201d of the airport, which was estimated to cost some $186,000, prompted the company to file the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
CPA, however, accused Telesource of breaching their contract by failing to maintain as-built drawings. CPA\u2019s lawyer, Douglas Cushnie, said Telesource failed to turn over to CPA the as-built drawings as required by the contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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