10 ~ Wednesday, September 12, 1990 - North Shore News

Mayor defends choice of wave pool tender

From Page 8

Council had expected more com-
petitive project tenders, bu: the
municipality dismissed a low bid
of $5,020,000 from Gama Con-
struction, after the company miss-
ed the bidding deadline.

But in the third round, seven
contractors who had bid earlier

the project a third time.

Andrew said he thought other
contractors might have lost inter-
est because of the way the
municipality had been handling
the project’s tender.

“The whole industry was so fed
up with it. Everyone knows
everyone's prices. It just kind of
makes a mockery of the process,”’

ting less of a building at a higher
price than they would have if
council had accepted Gania's bid
in the second round.

“It still is less than what we yo:
before with the previous bid,"’
said Clark. ‘‘te's unfortunate it's
costing the taxpayers more money
than they otherwise would have
had to pay.”

round of tenders. He includes in
that figure the cost involved in
reducing the building’s specifica-
tions according to a redesign
which scaled down the
maintenance area in the building.

But Mayor Marilyn Baker said
the municipality had received legal
advice that Gama’s bid may not
have been cligible.

“The fact is the Gama bid came

next lowest bid after Gama's $5
milion came in at approximately
$5.6 million — a spread she was
unwilling to deal with considering
the questionable status of the
Gama bid.

In addition, the North Van-
couver Recreation Commission
had recommended the acceptance
of the Gama bid or no_ bids
because the next bid was $0.5 mil-

Clark estimates that the project
will eventually cost taxpayers
$250,000 more than it would have
cost had council gone with
Gama's flow bid in the second

he said.

According to North Vancouver
District Ald. Craig Clark, the
chairman of the project commit-
tee, Lynn Valley residents are get-

were asked by the district to rebid
in view of an increase in its 1990
capital budget to approximately $5
million.

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ning a risk of compromising our
tender system.’”

In addition, Baker said that the

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