"I would like to clarify for a moment since on this issue you are writing and saying various and possible numbers and some things that are not so. The total cost to us for the work is 13.5 billion ". This was stated by the Undersecretary for Transport Edoardo Rixi speaking on the bridge over the Strait to the joint Transport and Environment committees of the Chamber. "In 2011 the cost was 8.5 billion, so it went up from 8.5 billion to 13 billion overall. Of these 8.5 billion, those we are talking about on the price update are the 6.7 billion that concern the contract with the general contractor".
"Precisely with a view to avoiding disproportionate increases in prices and difficult to manage, what has been done is to lock the situation in order to avoid exponential increases in the future of what may be price increases", said the undersecretary. This, he pointed out, is the reason "why the amendment has been set aside" relating to the expensive material, which will be released "shortly because there is the definitive reformulation of the Mef that they are writing".
"The project is no different" compared to that of 2011, "but there is a technological evolution, which if we want to quantify it, if we do not want no: I put the sensors on the bridge, if I want to do a modern work. If we think we have to use technology from 10 years ago, that's a theme. But this is why we believe this decree is correct," Rixi said. Starting from the prices of 2011 to those of today "we have many materials that have changed over time.
"Two reformulation changes have been made to clarify two things: first of all that the limit is the 13.5 billion of the Def, so the work is within that limit; Second we had to set objective criteria", since the "materials in the last 2 years have increased, some even more than 40%, and it was necessary to measure costs to avoid extra profits for a company that won the contract in 2012", said the undersecretary illustrating the reformulated amendment on the expensive materials presented to the commissions. "It serves to unravel doubts both on the value and on the increase in costs and on any extra profits, to protect the State so that the work is carried out with adequate time and time. I think that the method chosen with Accounting and Mef is protective".
