Monday, February 19, 2007
When were the laws of logic repealed by Abbotsford City Hall?
How was it that I missed this major change?
Just a quick question about how it is that Mr. Guthrie can say we need to employ a Project Manager because "(City) staff is unable to dedicate neither the required time not specialist skills..."; then state that they excepted the lowest bid, even when it was grossly out of line with the three other bids on the grounds that work would be carried out by the city?
If the accepted bid requires the city to dedicate time to project management, but as Mr.. Guthrie asserts "staff is unable to dedicate... the required time..." who is going to do the work - City Halls Fairy Godmother or will it just not get done leading to further disaster on the DISASTER that is Plan A.
Citizens had certainly better hope that Abbotsford City Hall suddenly develops the ability to define project requirements correctly, accurately and in great detail. If they are so bad at defining their needs that three out of four contractors could not understand what it was that Abbotsford City Hall wanted done on a small Plan A contract such as this, just how BIG a mess are they going to bring down on the heads and pocketbooks of the citizen taxpayers of Abbotsford with the remainder of Plan A?
Just a quick question about how it is that Mr. Guthrie can say we need to employ a Project Manager because "(City) staff is unable to dedicate neither the required time not specialist skills..."; then state that they excepted the lowest bid, even when it was grossly out of line with the three other bids on the grounds that work would be carried out by the city?
If the accepted bid requires the city to dedicate time to project management, but as Mr.. Guthrie asserts "staff is unable to dedicate... the required time..." who is going to do the work - City Halls Fairy Godmother or will it just not get done leading to further disaster on the DISASTER that is Plan A.
Citizens had certainly better hope that Abbotsford City Hall suddenly develops the ability to define project requirements correctly, accurately and in great detail. If they are so bad at defining their needs that three out of four contractors could not understand what it was that Abbotsford City Hall wanted done on a small Plan A contract such as this, just how BIG a mess are they going to bring down on the heads and pocketbooks of the citizen taxpayers of Abbotsford with the remainder of Plan A?
# posted by James W Breckenridge : 12:01 AM
