Rolando Herrera/ Reform Agency
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 | 06:38
CDMX.- The Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) determined that the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) made excess payments of 1,86.7 million pesos in the works of Section 4 of the Mayan Train.
The works paid in excess, according to the Audit of Compliance with Physical Investments 115 of the Public Account 2021, are related to incorrect estimates made regarding the volumes of work built.
Section 4 of the Maya Train goes from Izamal, Yucatán, to Cancún, Quintana Roo, it is 257 kilometers long and, in addition to the double railway track, includes complementary works, such as 5 railway stations, two highway service areas, four slopes, four junctions, 61 drainage works, one maintenance base, eight returns, 26 underpasses, 55 cattle crossings, 19 wildlife crossings, 62 existing access roads and one service road.
The ASF reviewed two contracts awarded to two construction consortiums that during 2021 executed a total of 234 work concepts, for which they collected 6 thousand 334.9 million pesos.
The ASF considered that there were excess payments in the amount of 492 million 942 thousand pesos in three concepts of the “retaining walls” subheading, due to the fact that higher amounts were considered in the direct cost of materials.
“There remains a pending amount of 492 million 942.0 thousand pesos to be clarified, due to the fact that from the recalculation of unit prices prepared by the work residence, it was verified that there are differences in the matrices of unit prices with respect to the inputs of concrete, steel, falsework, filling, filter layer and waterproofing for each linear meter of wall, based on what is indicated in the retaining wall project plans,” he said.
Also, he added, there were excess payments for an amount of 400 million 271 thousand pesos, in six concepts of the ‘pavements’ subheading, due to the fact that higher amounts were considered in the direct cost of materials.
The rest of the excess payments made are related to works carried out on embankments, civil works for vehicular crossings, as well as formation of a causeway-type fill.
“Amounts to Clarify: 1,086,757,360.87 pesos pending clarification were determined,” said the ASF.
Fonatur must justify the payments made in excess in the coming weeks and if they do not do so, they will have to return the resources to the Ministry of Finance.
