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Alberta’s Minister of Environment Shannon Phillips says money did play a role in the awarding of the contract. “(Ecofitt) were the winning bid because they were three times less expensive than any of the Alberta companies and several other companies bids as well,”
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Now I'm not going to go all the way to assuming Alberta companies bids were $60M+ (compared to what appears to be the 21.5M winning bid - there could easily be some politician speak wrt where the 3x higher costs were exactly), but it shouldn't shock anyone if the AB companies simply saw a golden goose opportunity.
Mentioned in the article is that the RFP process may have given valued 'experience' highly. It remains to be seen exactly what that means, but the AB company complaints could be read as "we have less experience and only wanted to charge 3x more. #Unfair. #Sad."
I am curious about a lot of things about this whole program - not least of which is how it rolls out to the far flung rural areas of the province.