It has been observed that the following activities are being affected due to ICC not providing adequate site planning, supervision, manpower, resources, equipment, machinery and tools on site. The existing resources cannot be deemed as consistent with the magnitude of the scope of work of the project.
1.	The construction of buildings at Gate 2 and Gate 3 is delayed due to slow progress on backfilling and lack of technical staff to provide shop drawings in a timely manner. Due to delays many long lead items can not be procured because they ned to be installed on their specific location.
2.	The construction of KAM access road is delayed due to lack of site manpower to remove the trees, light poles, clear the site from debris at the start of KAM.
3.	ICC is having problems providing a logically acceptable method statement for relocation of KAUST fence, which has been rejected multiple times and delayed submissions have put the work behind planned dates. At the moment work on removal of fence has started and is suffering extremely from lack of resources.
4.	Installation of a simple task like chain-link fence to isolate navy land from the project has taken more than a month and is still not complete.
5.	The procurement is facing delays because of ICC not being able to provide technical submittals on time and has ignored the importance of long lead items for the project.
6.	The quality of technical submittals and shop drawings is deteriorating as adequate discipline engineers are not employed within ICC to look into various disciplines like MEP, communications and security.
7.	Despite assurances from ICC in weekly meetings adequate quality staff has not been hired to date.
8.	Site has been excavated for ditch construction for a much longer length than the actual concerting of retaining walls causing prolonged unsafe conditions. The slow progress can be seen due to lack of manpower and materials for construction.
9.	It is observed that ICC managerial staff does not understand the scope of work, SA quality and safety requirements and creating written or verbal proposals/ claims for extra works which are either baseless or ill-informed. So far various baseless claims have done nothing but created delays in execution.
10.	Despite the fact that SAPMT has helped ICC continuously by intervening in issues like dealing with interfaces, assisted in creating proposals to expedite construction, ICC has failed to deliver on such activities and all SAPMT efforts have gone futile.
11.	No action has been taken to date by ICC to start works on the culverts regarding material submittals, shop drawings etc.
12.	ICC is continuously proposing to revise the approved project organization chart by removing critical staff from the chart which negates the organizational chart used for technical evaluation of ICC bid.
13.	Important project management decisions or even smaller actions regarding site works are centralized and taken by personnel out of the physical jurisdiction of the project, causing delays by making ill-informed decisions.
14.	Staff at site suffers from lack of abilities to plan resources and specialized project management skills and technical skills according to the nature of the project.
15.	ICC is progressively falling behind in saudization process.
16.	Subcontractors are not well informed of the scope of work and conflicts between the contractor and subcontractor are continuously delaying important submittals and site works.
17.	ICC is having problems acquiring unskilled personnel for the project in the same way as acquiring skilled personnel.
18.	ICC is relying on tools and equipment from subcontractors even for works which are not in subcontractor’s scope, causing delays and conflicts.
19.	ICC has not been able to finalize the means and methods required for execution of electrical and mechanical works and is having problems in understanding the scope of work due to lack of in-house staff.
20.	ICC operations on site are struggling with their own ICC planning/ estimating personnel based out of site for acquiring funds for execution of the project, where the allocated budgets for the project are based on the ICC bid and if lower than costs established by ICC operations are placed at low priority disregarding the approved schedule or priority.

In addition to the above; delays in performing simplest of activities indicates either problems with the cash flow for the project or inability to manage the project. ICC shall consider this as a proactive notification and is urged to initiate measures to overcome problems in site activities and provide SAPMT with a list of measures to be adopted within a week.

Should you have any questions, please contact Sohail Moughal, Project Engineer on Tel.  No. +966 12 422 4570.
