a. IC missed all the project milestones especially the mobilization and that’s why the factory was not ready when it should have been. The import of formwork and molds was also delayed beyond the milestones.
b. The agreement from IC proves that there were other works to be done on the project at the time SAPMT requested to suspend the activities related to a part (ditch) of the project and thus claims for idling are baseless. Workers and equipments should have been rescheduled to other activates promptly and as a matter of fact were rescheduled un-diligently. Despite various SAPAMT requests, other activates were not started, were slow, being done unprofessionally, damaging KAUST property and causing unnecessary delays. Various pictures were sent to IC to suggest hiring specialized skills. SAPMT agrees to compensate the contractor only for the significant resources which were acquired specifically for a single scitivity and could never be used anywhere else on the project.
c. There are more than 20 buildings of various sizes in the project requiring 82340 manhours according to the approved schedule. It roughly means 1000 manhours for 82 days or 125 workers for 82 days. At the moment there is hardly any work being done on the buildings. The shop drawings are still not completed. None of the buildings have come out of the ground yet. The delayed shop drawings, the speed of work on buildings and culverts and quality of submittals depicts the inadequate site and resource planning being done by IC.
d. Please refer to the daily tracking schedule for KAM road where the earthworks have been extremely behind schedule and have never been ahead of schedule since the start of the project, showing that not enough resources have ever been deployed by the contractor on any activity so far.

This closes the discussion about cliams for idling of manpower when a part of the project scope was suspended by SAPMT. If IC disagrees with SAPMT comments, IC is encouraged to take up its claims with Saudi Aramco contracting Department.
