A deluge of contracts

ALTHOUGH the details of some of Eskom’s contracts with Impulse International are sketchy, sources within the power utility confirmed that the deals concluded between April last year and February this year included:

A R79.2-million contract on an emergency basis for construction supervision at Kusile power station in August last year;

A R19.8-million contract that ran from August last year until last month;

A R300-million subcontract for trunk cabling for Kusile’s Unit 2 from ABB in October last year;

A R31.1-million deal in the same month that runs until September 2019;

A R14.2-million deal in January this year for a six-month contract;

A R21.3-million, seven-month contract starting this month;

A R198-million deal to extend a R79-million contract by 10 months, so it now runs until January next year; and

A R42.3-million contract in January this year which will run until December 2019.

Also, Impulse International, together with another ABB subcontractor, Dynamic Instruments, are among the beneficiaries of a R350-million “demobilisation claim” submitted by ABB to Eskom.

Of this amount, R72-million has already been paid out to the beneficiaries.