Paje orders blacklisting of erring cadastral survey contractors

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Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje has ordered his regional executive directors nationwide to blacklist survey contractors and geodetic engineers who failed to complete the cadastral survey projects awarded to them.

Paje’s move came in the wake of initial reports that a number of cadastral survey projects outsourced by the government were incomplete or abandoned by the survey contractors.

“This blacklisting should serve as a warning to all survey contractors as well geodetic engineers to be more serious in the conduct of business with the government,” Paje said.

The blacklisting will also enable the DENR to move for the final disposition of abandoned cadastral survey projects to competent survey groups, he said.

According to Paje, President Aquino has given the DENR a marching order to hasten and complete the cadastral survey of the country in support of the government’s various projects such as land titling, land use planning, taxation and internal revenue allotment (IRA) program for the different municipalities nationwide.

In DENR Administrative Order No. 2011-05, Paje directed the Land Management Bureau to conduct an inventory and establish a database of abandoned cadastral survey projects.

A cadastral survey project is said to be abandoned when field activities are left unfinished after the period stipulated in the contract, when the contractor fails to correct survey defects within a prescribed period, or when the contractor fails to return survey project records and other violations of the contract.

In the order, Paje has given the regional executive director (RED) the power to cancel abandoned survey projects, and to determine and impose the appropriate sanctions against the erring geodetic engineer or survey contractor.

The RED is also empowered to forfeit the performance bond of the contractor and file appropriate charges before a proper court, if warranted.

Paje also said that the RED can also file a petition to the Geodetic Engineers of the Philippines (GEP) for the cancellation or suspension of the erring GE’s accreditation.