Local firms in dark over trade from airport work
Friday 28th January 2011, 12:00PM GMT.
DOUBTS remain over how many Guernsey companies will benefit and how much materials and labour the preferred contractor for the airport development project will source locally if it carries out the work.
Public Services announced this week that it had chosen Lagan Construction as the preferred bidder and would now enter a three-month value engineering phase to work out detailed plans and costs for the project.
It expects the final budget to be less than the £81m. approved by the States in 2009.
PSD said it would answers questions about materials, machinery and work for local contractors when results of the value engineering phase were known.
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Just wondering if a local company like Ronez or RG Falla could carry out the work?
Possibly the two combined?
Would be nice to know the money & labour is kept within the island.
Obviously consultants would need to oversee the project.
Don’t need a repeat of yet more local companies being left high & dry with overseas contractors taking advantage of how trusting we are. Like has happened so many times in the past.
I’m quite sure this work could be carried out by ourselves. Such a shame our elected have little faith in what can be achieved if the will was there to allow it to happen.
In times like these, relatively high unemployment & prison inmates with little to do, it would be nice to see large projects presenting an opportunity to provide much needed employment rather than bolstering somebody else’s economy.
It is a golden opportunity for inmates to be given the chance of halving their sentence, with good behaviour & hard labour, with a guaranteed work placement once they are released.
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Paul for Chief Minister
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HAHA
Ray for Governor!
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Whoa, hold the phone! Pull up the draw-bridge! Who said contractors are going to be needed for ‘the airport extension’! Truth is, there must not be any further extension/growth at the airport. To allow it would be the beginning of the end for Guernsey. Life would never be the same again. The cancerous growth would take a little while to take effect, but it would come. Stop any further expansion/ growth at the airport right now before any mistakes that cannot be corrected are made!
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You have to hope that this is media speak and not a States done deal before anything has actually finally been voted and decided upon.
Does this again mean we have been sold out before democracy has voted?
‘Public Services announced this week that it had chosen Lagan Construction as the preferred bidder and would now enter a three-month value engineering phase to work out detailed plans and costs for the project.’
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would any Gsy firms want the job after so many not getting paid from Hoctief/concept last time work was carried out at the airport ??? Once bitten ….
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Far be it from me to prattle on about procedure, but if any local based construction firms had wanted the work, they would have tendered for it. The tender would have been considered along with those other firms who had tendered, and a decision would have been taken as to who represents the best value for money based on that. Seems PSD have done that and have selected a prefered bidder from that process. My guess would suggest around 20% of the value of the project would be spent on local firms directly, and all the people working on the job will indirectly contribute more during the lifetime of the work. The longer it takes to build the more would be spent on the island.
That said, I do have a shovel, It may take me a while longer to do the work, but I would be a tad cheaper at £78m.
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Any local firms who get bypassed by Lagan ( IF the States vote Pour)could always get hold of the Post Office and offer a price to repaint their 150 post boxes in less than the TWO YEARS! they believe it will take
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I trust any work will be undertaken whilst the airport is closed, the same as other Airport world wide….and not during working hours as already mentioned.
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