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Originally Posted by frinkprof
No I don't think that's the case. The fabrication contract was tendered and, there were a number of bids including a couple or three from Canada and the Spaniards. There were probably a few more but I can't recall from where.
The Spanish bid was the lowest.
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My concern is why did the bid go out to Spain? I highly doubt Spain is up to speed on all of the CSA and OHS requirements for structural assemblies.
We run into this all the time my job. The low bidder states they are well aware of the Canadian requirements and then when fabrication starts they dont know SFA.
Also, since this has shipped I would suggest that claim there would be no cost over runs are bull. I am pretty sure they won't ship the bridge back to Spain to have the welds fixes, so that means they will have to sub-contract out the weld repair and subsequent testing to a local facility. Something that was not in the original contract.
These cost will somehow find their way back to the owner of the bridge (the tax payers). I work for a large oil and gas company and the costs pretty much always find their way back to us and I am pretty sure our legal department is better than the cities legal department.