Thread by @SundanceConstr1

#cdnpoli #mbpoli People keep asking me what poor oversight costs the CDN taxpayer (or MB taxpayers) when construction projects are awarded and given poor supervision via third party consultants, engineering, and Indigenous Services. And it's a lot.

On a single federal project in northern MB - the budget to build a sewage lagoon and blower building - $12 million. The actual cost (and its still climbing) $40 million. Are you saying what I am? WTF? How the hell can one group be that incompetent that they cant build a slop hole

In 2011, it goes to tender. Awarded to a QC company, and craziness begins. Not enough suitable clay, inclement weather (started too late in season), insufficient engineering. But the subs - they order all the materials, the GC produces all the granular. Then, it goes off the rail

In 2012, the GC is declared in default, and subs are hooped. All get paid for materials except the electrical sub. Why? Because funds progressed via Treasury for the sub never made it to him. The funds "stayed" with the third party consultant. And I fought for the sub. #cdnpoli

30 months later, I won and got the sub his money, costs, interest - all of it. And then, the damn contract was re-tendered and my poor client is in it again. The contract uses all of the old subs, and their materials that have been sitting for 4 years in storage. Granular - gone.

Electrically, codes have changed, programming and electronics changed. And did the design consultant take the time to re-issue and review said drawings to be compliant? Of course not. Really - why bother right? It is only the taxpayer's money who so really cares? #cdnpoli #mbpoli

And, of course, it's on a First Nation, so even better - no incentive to actually complete the project with any kind of urgency, or actual efficiency right? So, in 2015, it begins... and crawls. In 2016, we get some drawings, some answers, but it's still crawling. It's a mess.

In 2017, we get a building to add electrical to - but no answers on how to inter-connect. Until... 2018. During commissioning... 22 times I asked - how do I inter-connect systems when the interconnection has not been designed and included in the project? #cdnpoli #mbpoli

By this time, my client is freaking out. It's a bizarre project and all of the other subs are in the same boat. And, I once again step in to help solve the problem to get the bloody system to work. In June 2018, it's commissioned. But, no one is getting paid.

In 2019, he gets paid his progress - but not the builders lien. You have to remember - he's done. But the engineers did not issue Substantial a year prior. They forgot to read the contract, or don't understand it. The money sits, the fees to the taxpayer grows. Sept 2019, nothing

So there you have it CDN taxpayers - your dollars hard at work. We should have just filled the lagoon with dollar bills instead of sewage. How does a $12 million dollar lagoon grow to be $40 million? Guess what? This happens ALL THE TIME!!!! #cdnpoli #mbpoli

Next time - maybe we just save the effort and put the $20 bill next to the can and use that before we flush. Because until we fix the above, and get some accountability - that's what we all got. #cdnpoli #mbpoli

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