The Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has announced plans to prevent contractors with uncompleted government projects from being awarded new road contracts under the next phase of the government’s Big Push infrastructure programme.
According to the Minister, the new policy is intended to address the growing problem of contractors taking on multiple projects simultaneously without completing existing ones, a practice he said has contributed to delays in infrastructure delivery.
Speaking to the media during a tour of ongoing road projects in the Eastern, Volta and Oti regions on Wednesday, July 8, Mr. Agbodza said contractors would be required to demonstrate that they have completed and handed over major projects already under their portfolio before being considered for additional contracts.
“As we said, the next phase of Big Push—you can’t be sitting on jobs and be asking for new ones,” he stated.
“In fact, we are even considering that before any contractor gets any major project, he must show that he has completed and handed over other projects within the portfolio,” he noted.
The Roads Minister criticised the practice of contractors spreading receiving multiple projects without making meaningful progress on any of them.
“No more contractors binging on the job and then taking it just touching here and there,” he said.
“From now, all major contractors, once you are working, you must complete a major project within your portfolio and hand it over before you get another one. That is the new thing we are coming to do now,” Mr. Agbodza added.
The measure is expected to improve project delivery under the Big Push programme and ensure value for money in the execution of government-funded infrastructure projects.
