Housekeeping for the Community Centre Contract
Monday evening will take us further into the CCC project. The Project Managers - mhpm - have submitted a couple of subcontracts for Council's approval. One for a Compliance Consultant, that's the guy that will check to see if what we get ,is what has been promised. Whether they check just the specifications or the costs is not known but it is comforting to know that somebody is going to watchdog the project. But was the choosing of the consultant transparent as the PMs made up a list of firms that should be invited to tender. When only two of the seven invitees responded the PMs reviewed the applications and then made a recommendation. So the guy doing the job gets to pick the guy who is going to watchdog? This is standard management practise after all why would the PM want a company that would be hard to get along with?
The other point that jumped out at me is seen in this extract from the letter to Council from the PM.
If you click on the pic you will read that because the budget for all four phases of the compliance contract was $125K and the successful invitee's bid was $255 - $140K overbudget, the PM recommended that the invitee only be awarded the first two phases for a cost of $107K. So are we overbudget already, and this is only the first subcontract from mhpm?
A second contract is going to be awarded, one for an Accessibility Consultant, presumably to check out the drawings for accessability problems, the BurdReport has been told that this building will be the most accessible building to be built in Ontario when it is finished. According to the report submitted to the Council the Chair of the Accessibility Committee did an exhaustive search and then discovered that very few firms or individuals are capable of all aspects of peer review. Obviously this time consuming process (tracking down a qualified firm and then negotiating a contract) is a difficult job for a committee so it has punted it off to the PM. He has the authority to conduct a search, and sole source the contract. What is not made clear in the paperwork is the fact that although the contract may be sole-sourced from a list of names given to the PM by the committee, the awarding of the contract is still subject to scrutiny by the committee. A good process adopted by the Committee.
The other point that jumped out at me is seen in this extract from the letter to Council from the PM.
If you click on the pic you will read that because the budget for all four phases of the compliance contract was $125K and the successful invitee's bid was $255 - $140K overbudget, the PM recommended that the invitee only be awarded the first two phases for a cost of $107K. So are we overbudget already, and this is only the first subcontract from mhpm?A second contract is going to be awarded, one for an Accessibility Consultant, presumably to check out the drawings for accessability problems, the BurdReport has been told that this building will be the most accessible building to be built in Ontario when it is finished. According to the report submitted to the Council the Chair of the Accessibility Committee did an exhaustive search and then discovered that very few firms or individuals are capable of all aspects of peer review. Obviously this time consuming process (tracking down a qualified firm and then negotiating a contract) is a difficult job for a committee so it has punted it off to the PM. He has the authority to conduct a search, and sole source the contract. What is not made clear in the paperwork is the fact that although the contract may be sole-sourced from a list of names given to the PM by the committee, the awarding of the contract is still subject to scrutiny by the committee. A good process adopted by the Committee.
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