Spokesperson: Water Monitoring Contract Unfairly Awarded to Transnational Company

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:25

Core Geoscience Services Spokesperson Eri Boye expressed his findings on the matter at a city council meeting Monday night.

A Core Geoscience Services spokesperson expressed his frustration to city council Monday night regarding what they say was an unfairly awarded "Water Use License Water Monitoring Program" contract to a transnational company last week.

Core Geoscience Services Spokesperson Eri Boye expressed his frustration to city council Monday night regarding what he says was an unfair "Water Use License Water Monitoring Program" tender that was recently awarded to Golder Associates last week.

While Boye said that he expected that the contractor with the lowest bid would get the tender to help the city conduct analysis and monitoring of it's water and wastewater systems, he claims the winning bidder didn't comply with certain safety standards during the making of their submission.

Despite Boye acknowledging that his company was also involved in bidding of the previously open tender, he says there were multiple red flags he saw with the winning bids application.

"It has come to our attention that the winning proposal was submitted using an uncertified laboratory and/or analytical testing that didn't meet the city's specifications within the Request for Proposal (RFP). The winning bid showed lack of understanding of the required analytical testing in order to comply with the City of Whitehorse's water use license, as well as the potential health risks (for) everyone that drinks and uses the city's water."

While it was stated during the discussions that there was likely only one certified laboratory in Canada to help bidders cover portions of their water and wastewater sampling proposals, city administration stated there were likely multiple other laboratories throughout Canada to help the bidders get quotes for the remainder of their contract proposals.

After Councillor Dan Boyd questioned how Boye knew what was going on with the other tender proposal, Boye said strange things started happening after he was notified by the City of Whitehorse that his company didn't get the bid.

"Approximately two days later, the lab came back to us and said ""This is really strange to us. We've just received a quote request for the City of Whitehorse tender that we provided to you. Has (the tender) been reopened? Is it open again? Why are we providing a quote to somebody else if the tender is no longer open?."""

CHON-FM wasn't able to get a response on the situation from a Golder Associates spokesperson as of newstime.

Boye says he will now complete a debriefing to get more analysis from city administration around the awarding of the contract.

Spokesperson: Water Monitoring Contract Unfairly Awarded to Transnational Company

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