Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just became aware of this situation very recently, so I have to depend on what the department provides for me with regard to information. What I have been told is that originally there were two tenders that came in for this project. Again, I have to say that this project itself came in after the budget. RWED was able to arrange funds to replace the warehouse, so it did not go through the normal process. On this particular contract, there were two tenders. One was rejected and the other one, the company mentioned, was high. Their costs were over the estimate of the project, so there were a series of attempts to negotiate, but their price was still high and I am told that the Department of Renewable Resources was unable to provide additional funds for this project. Therefore, this joint venture could not reduce their price further, so this whole project was re-tendered on a reduced scale and another firm got the contract through a public tendering process. That is the nature of the public tendering process. Once you get into the public tendering process, there is not much we can do about it. I became aware of this after it was in the public tendering process, so there was not much we could do about it at this point in time. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 89-13(6): Compensation For Unsuccessful Contract Bidders
In the Legislative Assembly on September 22nd, 1998. See this statement in context.
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