Outsourcing does prov’l gov’t good

Outsourcing of heavy equipment for the repair and maintenance of provincial roads allows the provincial government to save resources. What used to be a six-month work of the then provincial engineering task force can now be accomplished in less than two weeks.

Governor Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday announced that they are already about to complete the Phase I of the Capitol asphalting project. She said that aside from the short period in the completion of the project, the performance level is also far beyond what the task force before had executed.

She also mentioned that the province was able to save money using this scheme because it has done away with paying the overtime of the personnel and the maintenance of the equipment. She finds outsourcing of equipment advantageous to the province because the equipment is rented on a per-hour basis.

The governor said that in less than two weeks the asphalting of the 6.7-kilometer Kayaan-Dakit and the 12.3-kilometer Libertad-Udlot roads in Bogo will be completed. A 6.10-kilometer Lunas-Sta Lucia road in Asturias has already been completed including the Lamacan-Mangyan-Candaguit road in Sibonga and Ylaya-Kantangkas road in Dumanjug.

The rented equipment is now in Lamac, Pinamungajan, and Daanlungsod in Tuburan.