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Originally Posted by GullFoss
The bidco has blatantly failed because its so biased towards a "pro-bid" outcome. First the estimates are garbage. Theyre not accurate (they're not a midpoint of a normally distrusted curve). They don't have uncertainty bands around the cost estimates. And these are extremely important because Calgary is responsible for the cost overruns. So they failed in this core aspect of their mandate And second, the bidco is spearheading a huge promotional campaign centered around spinning the numbers favourably to the point where they might be saying things that aren't even true. There is a huge difference between promoting the bid and disceminating propaganda. So I would say they failed in the second aspect of their mandate as well.
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They included 20% contingency in the overall bid number. They refined values from the original exploration committee report. At this stage estimates are going to be +/- 30%. Unless you have specific information as to why these estimates are wrong you are effectively accusing this group of fraud.
I think it’s fair to say that they have excluded scope that isn’t drirectly related to the Olympic spend but that has been clearly indicated from the start.
The only questionable part is the 125 million cut to security where I agree they just moved the bell curve. The other area they have failed is the communication of cost over runs on the security file. There is clearly confusion there.
If you look at the quotes there job is to provide information and then promote the games. They have done both. You seem to be objecting to the promote part.