FRA will get contractors to fix roads at their own cost if standards are not followed

Fiji Roads Authority’s Acting CEO, Kamal Prasad says they are ensuring the road contractors are carrying out road maintenance at their own cost if they find the contractors are not doing the job properly in the first attempt.

Prasad says there is no Fiji way of doing things as some people would think.

He says if the road contractors fail to meet the required standard of road works, they will have to re-do the works for free and this is part of the contract.

Prasad says for Karsanji Street, the road contractor applied the seal late which resulted in pot-holes and the contractor had to re-do the work for free.

He says when payments are made to the contractors, a retention sum and a performance bond are kept by the FRA which means the contractor cannot just run away after not doing proper road rehabilitation.

Prasad adds they follow international standards for road works and expect the contractors to do the same.