A Gold Coast electrical engineering subcontractor awarded $127,000 by the Queensland Construction and Building Commission says it is still waiting for payment three months after the decision
Alister Thomson, Gold Coast Bulletin Subscriber only|March 31, 2020 12:00am
A GOLD COAST electrical engineering subcontractor awarded $127,000 by the Queensland Construction and Building Commission says it is still waiting for payment three months after the decision.
Stapylton-based Civex, which is run by Dan and Leisa Tobin, has issued a statutory demand to i2S (Intelligent Infrastructure Solutions) for payment of the money, owed for civil and electrical works for the Logan Enhancement Project.
However, i2S chairman Clayton Glenister said the case was subject to “confidentiality” and the company would be shortly commencing a claim against Civex for allegedly defective works on the LEP.
“This will far exceed any money owed by i2S,” he said.
This is not the first time Civex claims it has been owed money. The company says it was left more than $1.1 million out of pocket after working for a subsidiary of Fredon Group on the $1.5 billion expansion of Amberley Air Base. Civex has filed a claim that is about to be shifted from the District Court to the Supreme Court with an application due this week.
Civex started working on the Logan project, led by head contractor CPB, in March last year.
It provided work crews, day and night, on hourly rates whose job was to install electrical pits and conduit for variable speed limit sign footings.
The company issued seven invoices to i2S but was only paid in full for one.
“Subcontractors are getting bullied. It is corporate bullying, these guys have read what the other guys did and are copying the same thing by saying, ‘oh you have defects on the list’.”
The Bulletin has seen an email from CPB project director Sydney Phillips to Civex in which he says it has no outstanding defects from contractors to i2S.
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