Sean
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 | | Subject: Marina contract is not settled Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:43 pm | |
| | Quote: | ST SAMPSON’S Marina contractor Miller & Baird is to take the States to court to claim about £3.5m.
The company, which is registered in the Channel Islands and has an office in St Andrew’s, is claiming £7,114,330 for the work. The contract drawn up between it and the States was valued at £3,416,381.
The total certified by the States engineer was £4,090,656. Public Services minister Bill Bell, in a letter to all deputies, said the States was owed £400,000. A spokesman for Miller & Baird said Deputy Bell was wrong to say the contract had been settled.
‘Deputy Bell rightly points out the States engineer has now issued a final certificate, but this certificate has simply established that there is a dispute between the parties in the region of £3.5m.,’ he said. ‘The company has offered to meet Public Services to discuss mediation in order to expedite a settlement, but this option has been turned down.
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This is another cock up by our incompetent states i guess the tax payer will end up footing this once again. |
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