Gosexpertiza “hacked down” the Kultuchny Lake sewage treatment plant project
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Alfa-Stroy LLC failed to sue the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City District Highway Service for 10 million 125 thousand rubles for work performed under a municipal contract, the KAMCHATKA-INFORM agency reports with reference to the Arbitration Court of the Kamchatka Territory.
Alfa-Stroy has applied to arbitration with a corresponding claim. In September 2022, the company and the Highway Service signed a municipal contract for the development of project documentation for the construction of local wastewater treatment plants. Kultuchnoye of Petropavlovsk –Kamchatsky city district”.
The advance payment to the contractor amounted to 1 million rubles.
“Having completed and sent the design and estimate documentation to the customer, the contractor made the necessary adjustments to it, after which, in November 2023, he sent the developed project to Gosexpertiza Design Documentation of the Kamchatka Territory for an expert examination of the results of engineering surveys and verification of the reliability of determining the estimated cost of construction of the facility. The state expert Examination highlighted a number of comments on the results of the review of the documentation,” the court said.
In January and April, the contractor sent letters to the customer to eliminate these comments, namely, to resolve the issue of cleaning household wastewater. At the same time, the customer did not eliminate the comments, and therefore a negative state expert opinion was received in June 2024.
The Company believed that it had fulfilled its obligations under the contract properly and in full, and the fact of receiving a negative expert opinion was the result of the customer’s failure to provide the necessary documents. But the Highway Service did not pay the company’s bill. Then the contractor appealed to the court with a statement of claim.
“The Arbitration Court left the claim of Alfa-Stroy LLC without motion, invited the plaintiff to eliminate the circumstances that served as the basis for leaving the claim without motion, and to provide the court with evidence of their elimination by January 21, 2025 inclusive,” the court stressed.