Why can’t we know if SNC-Lavalin passed the Ottawa LRT2 technical scoring? | CBC News
The most unexpected moment of this week’s marathon council
meeting, where elected officials approved almost $9 billion in spending
between the 2019 budget and the second stage of light rail,
was Coun. Diane Deans asking if the winning bidders for the city’s
largest procurement in history had met the minimum technical score.But
the most shocking moment of the five-hour LRT discussion was the
answer from the city’s hired lawyer, Geoff Gilbert of Norton Rose
Fulbright: we’re not saying and — to be frank — it’s none of your
business.Just to be clear, taxpayers are being asked to spend
more than $4.66 billion on constructing the light rail expansion, but
they cannot know whether the bidders actually met the minimum
70-per-cent grade in the technical assessment.
A little touchy in light of recent events 🙂