General News
2 March, 2023
Local firm on flood work panel
A LODDON company is among 16 firms appointed to Loddon Shire Council’s flood restoration works panel. Pyramid Hill’s Corian Park Earthmoving was on Tuesday appointed to the panel by councillors on the recommendation of operations director Steven...
A LODDON company is among 16 firms appointed to Loddon Shire Council’s flood restoration works panel.
Pyramid Hill’s Corian Park Earthmoving was on Tuesday appointed to the panel by councillors on the recommendation of operations director Steven Phillips.
Mr Phillips said: “A panel of contractors will provide council with an efficient and flexible way to engage the necessary contractor workforce to carry out the restoration projects.
“The numerous works will be packaged into groups or packets of similar jobs based on either location or type.
“Each packet will be of a varying value that will not exceed $750,000. The average value of a packet of work is expected to exceed the current chief executive officers’ financial delegation ($300,000) for purchasing goods and services.
“To avoid the potential time for each packet that exceeds the chief executive officer’s financial delegation, specific authorisation relating to this contract is being sought.
“This will enable greater administrative efficiency in executing purchasing in relation to the delivery of this time dependent program.”
Councillors agreed to increase the delegation to $750,000 for flood restoration works.
Other companies appointed to the panel are mostly based in regional Victoria and will undertake work that could include repairs to 117 culverts, 56 floodways, re-sheeting 273km of gravel road, replacing should on 50km of unsealed road shoulders and rebuilding 14.25km of sealed road.
Council last month told the Loddon Herald that assessment of damage from October’s flood emergency was 95 per cent complete.
The repair bill has been put at more than $60 million.