12-02-2015, 04:22 PM
(12-02-2015, 03:31 PM)Canard Wrote: Ahh, good. I didn't see that. But I still don't see this as anyone's fault, really. Can you blame them for not just blindly issuing a PO for work that suddenly increased in price? Isn't it what "taxpayers" (I absolutely hate that term) are always complaining about?
In this case, they knew that the work, if tendered immediately, would see a small portion forced into the 62% price increased winter work timeframe. Knowing this, an RFQ that would take at least 1-3 months for a job like this would push 1-3 months into a 62% premium cost. Simple math would show that you would need to expect a *STEEP* discount to override that one basic point. And they should have known they wouldn't get it, I would argue. At the very least, it is *not* surprising that Kitchener has made it cost more.