THE MONORAIL NEEDS YOU ! ! ! Hey guys, don't forget to make it out to one of these community meetings this week. We need pro-monorail people out in FORCE,...
Horn can't give up on the Operations part of DBOM. In order to get this thing built he needs a contractor who will risk building it at a loss upfront...
Hey monorail supporters, we need _YOU_ to comment at the City Council's Committee of the Whole (COW!) meeting for the Monorail Project at 2pm on Thursday at...
I'm no accounting/estimating expert, but the fiscal scenario you suggest doesn't make sense to me. The construction part of the contract is so vastly larger...
Your math is only valid if you assume no litigation. On the New Jersey Transit DBOM contract Bombardier is litigating at 31% of the value of the construction...
and assuming that the project progressed along the same lines as the NJ rail. here's an excerpt of a story I dug up regarding the lawsuit, giving the rationale...
Exactly. Would you expect otherwise? Under a DBOM contract the winning contractor has two options, 1) bid high initially to cover uncertainty downstream, or...
... DA: disagree with point 2 -- they can not recover general overruns from doing poor planning & execution, but they could recover costs incurred from (as...
Actually, the point of the litigation is precisely to assign blame for the cost overruns, but I think the DBOM contact type gives the contractor more leeway to...
First of all the union is not asking for a shift to design - bid - build they are only asking for the operation and maintain parts to be run by a public agency...
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0409/040303_news_monorail.php With the vigerous negative spin one expects from the Seattle Weekly on this issue....
It appears to me that the unions and Metro just want an unfair advantage by being pre-selected to get the O&M work. There is nothing in the DBOM approach or in...
Look greenie this bs and you know it - please document any contractor that is asking the CC to slow down the project - I chat with both teams and have...
... EB: I understand the O&M contract on the current monorail held by Albro and Rolfe's company splits the revenues generated after expenses with the City of...
SEATTLE -- The Seattle Monorail Project (http://elevated.org) has released a request for proposals to two teams who have been pre-qualified to submit proposals...
... expenses ... have ... this ... city. ... not ... PS: The OM will require 99.7% reliability and other operating minimums with large fines for non-compliance...
... EB: It not only makes sense, it is common practice. Companies often bid low in anticipation of lucrative project delays and subsequent change orders. And...
... EB: Nobody has complained about the lucrative Seattle Monorail O&M contract - where a million a year gets split down the middle. Re' the Green Line O&M...
I think I may actually be offended by just how loosely Rick Anderson plays with the facts in this article and the slams it takes at the Project, while at the...
Conlin has little or no credibility on the monorail but as I understand it he reported the alleged representative expressed concern that the 2007 opening date...
... O&M ... PS: And the union hasn't organized SCM (the GL is of different nature than the Alweg) and I'm sure somebody has complained - I've never said that...
My understanding is that the contract puts limits on the markup for changes - but I don't see a significant difference in change orders between DBOM and DBB -...
You know, you are absolutely right. The contractor representative could have been pointing out the additional costs of the 2007 opening date versus the 2009...
The conventional wisdom of choosing contracts by GMAX (guaranteed maximum plus a fee with all cost to the owner often with a percentage to the contractor for...
What facts do you think he plays loosely with? Orwell and the Bush administration would love this... journalism=attack job due diligence=obstructionism ...
... You're missing an essential point - the POINT of having such contracts is to make the private entity, NOT the taxpayer, absorb the cost overruns. If we...
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