Comment 121123

By Haveacow (registered) | Posted April 07, 2017 at 00:27:37 in reply to Comment 121116

It wasn't a settlement, the city of Ottawa lost the North-South LRT Line court case, roughly $36 Million paid to Siemens and $6-7 Million paid to PCL Dufferin. Not to mention the damage to the city's reputation that followed.

The big problem for Hamilton and its council is that, if they do indeed turn down the LRT cash they will owe many groups quite a bit of money. If the council suddenly turns around and kills this project, the city may not only owe Metrolinx cash but several engineering and planning firms, who have yet to be paid by Metrolinx. Plus a group I know who has been working with Metrolinx doing construction phasing, engineering and planning proposal modeling and guidance.

Pull the plug on this right now and Metrolinx puts a stop payment on all the cheques still going out to these companies. They all will get told, "if you want to get paid, talk to Hamilton City Council!"

Big money has already been spent by several groups who are planning to bid in the RFQ process. A lot of expensive work is already being done by them. Its unlikely developers will get any compensation but pull the plug in the middle of RFQ process, when there are already interested parties preparing bids, yes you have to pay them their bid preparation costs, that by itself can go into the millions of dollars, depending how much work has already been done by each group.

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