Government will need “a significant amount of time” before the promised office of an independent Contractor General can be created.Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy was responding to a challenge in the Upper House yesterday by Progressive Labour Party Senator Diallo Rabain.Senator Rabain, Shadow Planning Minister, noted that the One Bermuda Alliance as Opposition “pledged to create a contractor general while the PLP said it had already done it with the Office of Project Management and Procurement (OPMP).“The other side said it needed to be someone completely separate from Government,” Sen Rabain said.“Is this department now going to be the de facto contractor general?”Queried by The Royal Gazette, Senator Fahy conceded: “At the moment, we will have to work with what we’ve got.”Setting up an independent Contractor General to oversee Government’s construction projects was an early campaign pledge by the OBA Opposition.The OPMP was created in 2011 to vet the handing out of contracts by Government.