The Samoa Tautua Party is questioning who the contractor is for the work currently done on building the Fugalei Market.
Opposition leader Palusalue Faapo II claims that as far as they understand this contract bid after it was tendered out was won by a Chinese company.
But said word is there is a new contractor now working on completing the market.
He did not name the company that won the tender.
But Qing Dao Construction won that bid following the assessment of applications by the Sub-Committee.
Earlier reports confirmed that Qing Dao was chosen from six companies that submitted bids.
The decision to award the contract to Qing Dao was announced on 12 July 2013.
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But Palusalue is questioning who is now holding the contract for construction of the market since hearing allegations “that the Chinese company is no longer building it”.
“Was it retendered or is the new contractor directly appointed to continue the work,” he said.
In February this year this newspaper reported the Project Manager of the Fugalei Market Leiataua Tom Tinai denied the contract to build the Fugalei market was pulled from Qing Dao Construction.
He was unaware of such an allegation and said rumours were “not true”.
“Qing Dao is still our main Construction Company and we are still working together with them.”
A source told Samoa Observer the construction company was pulled out following several delays to the project.
The source also said four local contractors had been appointed to help with the project because it was too slow.
But Leiataua rejected the claims saying “I was surprised when I saw it in the paper”.
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