The roadside revealed serious conditions – lifts a contract with a road company

– In June The Road Administration issued a notice of termination of contract. deadline. According to Nils Karb, head of department at the Norwegian Public Administration of Roads, the fact that we raised the contract shows the seriousness of the case.

According to Vegvesenet, Veidrifts violated the liability of the contract by severely violating working conditions and violating the provisions on HSE. In addition to the fact that these three conditions constitute legally independent reasons for the contract, the Vegvesen considers that there has been a false invoicing and a general violation of the plans and the organization of the operational tasks and maintenance in Follo

"Conditions may have affected road safety and thus threaten the loss of life and health," says the Norwegian Road Administration.

The Police Department of the Directorate of Roads investigates the case in January 2018.

Behind individual events often hide more systematic violations, which require specialized expertise and a capacity for discovery ", explains the head of the Crime Division Jon Molnes

Until the contract of operation and maintenance becomes apparent, Vaktmesterkompaniet will temporarily take over the operating contract Two of the five contracts were awarded after a tender call in 2015. The value of the contract with Veidrift AS was nearly 300 million Norwegian kroner

Most important security

NTB did not comment Veidrift AS, but General Manager Frank Stabu announced to Stland's Leaf when they received the notice of the contract termination at the end of May that they had corrected in many circumstances. He emphasized that road safety is the most important criterion in all the work that they do.

– There is nothing more important for road operations than to ensure safe roads and safe traffic for all. Therefore, we review all the issues that the Norwegian Administration of Public Roads has reported in the opinion, to see where we can get better and learn from all the mistakes. Veidrift is very seriously fulfilling the contract with the Norwegian Administration of Public Roads, Stabu says.

– Most of the most serious perverse conditions involve winter operations 2017/2018 and missions by one of our subcontractors, says Stabu. that the company chose in February to terminate the contract with this subcontractor.

He stated that Veidrift had introduced new routines and should integrate new systems to have a much narrower outsourcing of subcontractors.

(NTB)

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