page_title: Kodama case
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Kodama case / Background
caption_attribution_description: Un largo viaje hizo este bus recorrido 506 para llegar hasta aquí desde Maipú. Detrás se ve parte del camino. Av. Grecia esquina el Acueducto, Peñalolén, Región Metropolitana, Chile.
context_page_description: 2011 the Chilean Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning under the direction of Magdalena Matte signed a judicial settlement that authorized the payment of 17,000 million CLP to building contractor "Consorcio de Construcciones Kodama Ltda." for works that were valued in maximal 3,000 million CLP by Institute for Experimentation and Research of Materials, IDIEM of the University of Chile. The payment transaction, that corresponds to 15,000 Chilean social housing properties, was stopped in last minute.
context_section_description: In the course of works for Transantiago the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, under the administration of Michelle Bachelet, ordered in November 2006 the construction of a Bus lane in "Avenue Pedro Aguirre Cerda" for $25.500 million CLP that should be finished in 2007. After changes to the project, the project was finished in May 2010, 899 days after schedule.
  For the extras as consequence of changes the contractor demanded on 2009 7,000 million CLP from the ministry but the authority valued the additional costs only to 950 million CLP (Resolución 134, on 16. February 2010) and announced this to the Contraloría General de la República de Chile. Eights months later, under the administration of Sebastián Piñera, the Contraloría refused the payment transaction and authorized the payment of (only) 95 million CLP (toma de razón definitiva de Contraloría, new pay, on 6. October 2010).
  On 15. December 2010, Kodama Ltda. filed a lawsuit for 41,000 million CLP against the Chilean State  to the 10. Civil Court in Santiago de Chile. That were 493% more than the initially demanded 7,000 million.
  For unknown reasons on 25. January 2011 the Decree 8, signed by the Minister for Housing and Urban Planning, authorized the payment of 17,000 million CLP to the contractor Kodama Ltda.. This offer was accepted by the contractor and the settlement was signed in the 10. Civil Court of Santiago.
caption: Bus lane of Transantiago, at Av. Grecia / El Acueducto, in Peñalolén
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