Private supplier to speed up trash transfer
TO fast-track the hauling of garbage from the South Road Properties (SRP), the private company that is temporarily handling Cebu City’s trash will field more trucks starting today.
Roberto Cabarrubias, chief of the Cebu City Government’s Department of Public Services (DPS), said that Jomara Konstruct Corp. will add 24 garbage trucks that will transport trash from the transfer station in the SRP to the final disposal site in Compostela town.
Jomara is a company based in Minglanilla.
The 24 trucks will be in addition to those that were earlier deployed in the city after the company took over the garbage disposal this week.
Cabarrubias said that Jomara will have four days to haul the garbage since the approved emergency procurement amounting to P9.2 million was intended only for this month.
The City conducted an emergency procurement last week to choose the service provider that will handle its garbage disposal for the last days of December, after the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill was closed on orders of the Court of Appeals.
The City will conduct another bidding to identify the service provider that will handle the garbage disposal service next year.
City Hall will have to pay P1,375 to the service provider for every ton of garbage they will dispose.
The amount will be inclusive of all the charges including the use of their equipment, trucks and tip- ping fees, among others.
Cabarrubias said they might not be able to spend the entire P9.2 million available for garbage disposal since City Hall will pay Jomara only for the total tons of garbage they’ve hauled within the given period.
While garbage is being moved from the SRP transfer station, Cabarrubias said that DPS and the barangays will continue to collect garbage in all parts of the city.
As agreed, Jomara will only collect the garbage from the transfer station while DPS will continue to collect from different sites.