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m) Item F-7 Porter Construction’s lump sum price of $1,500 for pavement line painting
is very low. .The other tenderers priced this item at over $3,000.

n) ltem G-2 Porter Cgnstruction’s price of $6.50/m2 for installing top soil and seed is
roughly twice the price submitted by the other two tenderers.

Although some of the rates mentioned above are unbalanced none are so extreme that require
remedial action and particularly for the fact that most of these rates, excluding Item A-1, apply
to small quantities of work and nave little overali impact on the total tender value.

The consistency of the unit price variation throughout the Scheduled Quantities indicates a
balanced tender as well as competitive tendering on the part of the various contractors.

7. FORCE ACCOUNT RATES

Force account rates were not submitted by any of the tenderers. However the force account rates
_of Maple Leaf Construction Ltd. have been requested and are submitted in Appendix A of this
report. These rates are in order. |

8. COMPARISON WITH ESTIMATE

The average total tender price is approximately 15% lower than the original estimate for this work, |

This difference may be accounted for by the extremely competitive nature of this tender resulting :

from ihe present depressed economy.
It should also be noted that the estimate was based on rates for similar work, where available, :
and did not attempt to take account of possible savings due to pariicuiar methods of operation.

.  Ttis therefore expected that the lowest tender should be somewhat lower than the estimate. :

tt may be concluded that the competitive tenders, which were all under the estimate, can be

accepted with confidence.