Expenditure of over 170 million yen due to bankruptcy of the company
In the spring of this year, due to the effect of the bankruptcy and the delay in completion of a contractor who received an order for the construction of a new public junior high school in Saitama City, which was scheduled to open, the city's spending, which was not initially planned, rose to over 170 million yen. The interview with the city officials revealed that there was no prospect of recovery.
Saitama City's construction company “M Tech” has received an order for joint construction of a public junior high school and an extension of an elementary school with other contractors. I'm late.
As a result, the start of classes at the new school building was delayed in September in Midori Ward's junior high school, and in the meantime, there was a cost for emergency construction of empty classrooms and operation of shuttle buses to accept students at nearby schools It means that.
According to the person concerned, the total amount of expenditure in the city that was not planned is about 170 million yen.
Saitama City intends to continue to charge M-Tech for this cost, but it is difficult for the bankruptcy trustee to pay, and the contractor cannot also claim it for contracting contracted construction work. The prospect is not standing.
Saitama City says, “We take it very seriously. We want to consider reviewing the way the contract should be in the future.”
Expert "Need to create a mechanism that does not use tax"
In this case, Prof. Shigeki Tsuji of Sophia University, who is familiar with contracts for public works, said, “Because we are building infrastructure for citizen services with taxes, failure is not allowed. `` We should think of a heavy approach. It is necessary to create a mechanism to prevent unnecessary use of taxes, '' he pointed out that it is important to review the way contracts are made and to assess the management status of companies in advance. did.