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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Basing my comments on this:

Kitchener, Region spar over LRT utility costs - The Record


Quote: In December 2014 the city and contractor agreed on maintaining the same pricing for reconstruction work, the staff report says.

But in March, the city claims, Aecon came back with significantly increased pricing but pulled back a bit after negotiation.

City staff still didn't like the deal and instead issued a tender for the work that closed in May.

The 10 bids that came back were way more money than expected which left the city with no choice but to go back to Aecon negotiations.

Galloway said the delay in awarding a contract contributes to increased costs for the city because winter construction is more costly than summer work.

"Through all this the work got delayed and it's got to be done before the spring so they got pushed into winter construction," he said. "If they had taken the original price, the work could have been underway and for the most part they would have avoided winter construction."
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by zanate - 12-02-2015, 03:15 PM
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