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Originally Posted by GGG
Yes, but somehow Nenshi was under the impression that this was going to be changed based on his statements that the Federal government new that the matching rule was not acceptable per this bid. If there was no way that this would change the bid shouldn't have been started.
So the question is where did this idea that the feds would waive the matching requirements come from. Nenshi assuming that the feds would cave or the feds implying that changes were possible and then bailing when it wasn't politically expedient.
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not sure if we'll know.
but from the e-mail postmedia released, and the way the bid has gone, I would put blame of the city for wanting or expecting the rules to change.
heck didn't he even say even say to announce the funding and then fix the numbers after? plus wanting the feds to "
a guarantee on any security cost overruns,” probably didn't go over well.
a few people here said the security could even be less than the bid estimate. if that's so, isn't it funny that Nenshi wanted a guarantee for security cost overruns and you had more faith in the bid estimate than he does.