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Originally Posted by EdmTrekker
As long as it is on "time" as per schedule in contract it matters not. But did the city have a hammer for delays in delivery?
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What did the city have to do with any of this. The contract is between the contractor and their supplier. The COE can pound on their contractor, the Acciona Pacer JV. It's up to the contractor to work with or pound on daewoo To . get the material to site
The big test is how hard the COE will push the JV to make the completion date. Will they demand 24 hour a day work? Who knows, the COE doesn't have much of a stick unless the are penalty clauses, it's not like kicking the JV out and replacing them will fix anything.
Honestly, I think alot of this is a lack of experience within the COE or being tied 100% to low tender. Somehow the complexity of projects continually gets under estimated and we all get to watch the results and there is some mechanism missing to look at the proposed schedule and say, ya that's BS they might be cheap but they are lieing in their time lines.
If someone comes around and says the COE directly procured the arches and is supplying them to the JV to erect I'll cry, the COE would be on the hook for some major delay costs.