INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY

On October 28, 1981 you authorized us to proceed with a Systems
Requirements and Selection Study on behalf of the City of Port Coquitlam.
This we proceeded to carry out in accordance with our proposal to you,

dated July 27, 1987.

With the interested participation of your staff we assembled your
requirements in the form of a Request for Proposal.

The net response from the public announcement of an invitation to
tender was nine complete proposals. Three of these were rejected as
unsuitable during the first step of our analysis. Of the remaining six,
three were finally deemed to be potentially suitable.

One vendor's proposal, that of MAI Canada, Lid., emerged as clearly
superior on the basis of proposed cost, service, support and provision
of your requirements.

We recommend that negotiations be commenced with MAI Canada, Ltd.
regarding contractural terms and conditions to safeguard the interests
of the City. When a satisfactory contract has been Negotiated, it should
be submitted to Council for approval and authorization of expenditures.

Thorne Stevenson & Kellogg

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