Times-Advocate, 1981-10-07, Page 3Crediton contractor gets job
Times -Advocate, Cktober 7, 1981
Page 3
Board accepts low boiler bid, despite Seaforth firm's protest
The Huron County Board
of Education accepted the
tender of G.L. Slaght
Limited of Crediton for a
Yokk-Shipley boiler at
$$,811 for Seaforth District
High School.
The bid accepted was the
lowest of seven tenders
received by the board. The
Open bids
for drain
Tenders for the con-
struction of a sanitary and
storm drain to serve in-
dustrial and commercial
property along Highway 83
E. were opened by council
Monday.
C.A. McDowell Limited,
Exeter, submitted the lowest
of seven bids at 149,879.09
and this was approved
subject to the engineer's
review and the approval and
signing of an easement and
agreement by Landrush Inc.
and Hawleaf Developments
Limited..
The contract is to be
awarded in 30 days, pending
the approvals and
agreements.
The project was not in-
cluded in this year's budget
and $30,000 will be taken
from working capital and
another 120,000 will come by
transferring the $20,000 that
had been set aside in the
budget to provide sanitary
sewer service to the
proposed location of Laidlaw
Transport at the eastern
outskirts.
recommendation to accept
the tender was originally
submitted to the board by the
management committee but
was reviewed by the
executive committee after
receiving a complaint from
Bell Industries Limited of
Seaforth, a boiler
manufacturing company.
In the executive com-
mittee's report to the board
It stated, "as a result of
string objections in the past
from Bell Industries Limited
that one of its boilers was not
used as the 'base bid' for
tendering of boiler
replacement in Huron
County Schools, the project
engineer was Instructed by
this board's administrative
staff to use a Bell Industries
Limited boiler as the 'base
bid"'.
The base bid is the item
whose specifications are
used on the tender forms and
must be equalled or ex-
ceeded by a tenderer. This
practice was followed for the
boiler tenders.
"The lowest 'tenderer on
the total project using both
the "base bid" boiler and
suggested alternatives was
G.L. Slaght Limited,"
stated the executive com-
mittee's report.
The Slaght company's bids
were as follows, base bid
boiler at *44,100, York -
Shipley boiler at $34,811, and
Syncro Compac boiler at
$36,543 (Syncro Compac is
manufactured by Bell
Industries). R. Egan, the
board's consulting engineer
did not accept the Syncro
Compac boiler as being
equal to the base bid, but did
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accept the York -Shipley
boiler as being equal.
"We have just learned
that, at the advice of Mr. R.
Egan, the board's consulting
engineer, the board has,
awarded a contract for a new
boiler In the Seaforth
District High School to a
contractor who will supply a
boiler of foreign manufac-
ture," stated a letter dated
September 25 from Charles
Smith, vice-president of Bell
Industries to the board.
The letter adds that the
school is only a half mile
from the company's plant.
"Robert Bell Industries
paid taxes this year into the
Huron County School system
in the amount of =2,457.05. If
the tax paid by our em-
ployees is added to this it
would easily double the
amount," stated Mr. Smith's
letter.
The committee's report
states, "the representative
of Bell Industries Limited, in
his letter to all members of
the board, seeks preferential
treatment because his
company and his employees
are Huron County taxpayers.
We have been advised by the
Ministry of Education that
the only preferential
treatment the Ministry will
acknowledge is the Canadian
Content policy."
The committee's report
noted the Ministry's grant
rate is approximately 80
percent of approved costs
based on the lowest bid, and
in this case, adjusted bid.
The adjusted bid, used for
comparison purposes only, is
computed by using a formula
developed by the Ministry of
Industry and Tourism. In the
adjusted bids, the York -
Shipley boiler remains the
lowest.
Programs
Continued from front page
Total cost of the re-
surfacing has been set at
$10,000. of which the town
would be responsible for 10
percent or $1,000.
It was also indicated that
members of the road com-
mittee will be checking into
the possibility of under-
taking a walkway on the
east side of the Main "St1
bridge under a Local Lrn-
provement project. .
A straw vote conducted by
the town did not indicate any
strong support for the
walkway. MacGregor said,
but noted that some com-
mittee members were anx-
ious to see it undertaken so
children living at the north
end would not have to cross
the busy highway to get to
school and downtown.
Other recommendations
contained in the committee
report and approved by
council were as follows:
That letters be sent to
Mac's. Pizza Train and Film
Speed stating the town's con-
cern over littering in the
area. A copy of the town's
bylaw in that regard will
also be included in the letter
and it was further indicated
that Mayor Shaw would talk
to his son who is president of
the SHDHS student council
to see if there could be some
curtailment of the problem
as it is related to the
students.
That the Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority be
' approached to see what con-
tribution they would have
towards a proposed project
of developing an overnight
camping site on property
just west of the Main St.
bridge.
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"The local ratepayers will
have to pay not only the 20
percent (roximately) not
provided by the Province but
also 100 percent of the dif-
ference between the lowest
u.
adjusted bid and the bid the
Board accepts," stated the
committee report.
Trustee J. Jewitt
representing the . Townships
of Hulett and Killop and
the Town of Seaforth said in
view of the large difference
in cost between the boilers,
the board should go with the
lowest bid.
Chairman of the board
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Donald McDonald said it is a
straight "dollars and cents
question".
Ina question period at the
end of the meeting, Mr.
Smith asked the board if they
had a written statement of
the Canadian Content of the
York -Shipley boiler. (The
boiler is manufactured in the
United States.) Chairman
McDonald said the board did
have a letter listing the
Canadian content of the
boiler.
Mr. Smith also asked if the
consulting engineer gave
reasons why the alternate
boiler, in this case the
Syncro Compac boiler was
not acceptable.
Superintendent of
Education R.B. Allan said no
reasons were given except
that the boiler was not equal
to the base bid.
The Bell Industries
representative asked if the
board was aware of the
paragraph in the statement
of Canadian Content which
states, "If the Canadian
content information is found
to be incorrect, the quotation
tender will be rejected, and
the bidder may be
disqualified from all future
bidding."
Chairman McDonald said
the board is aware of this.
Mr. Smith's final question
to the board asked if the
board is aware Bell
Industries can move its
Huron County Bo el—of
Education supportother
areas.
During a break in the
meeting, Mr. Smith told
reporters his next step would
be to ask the Ministry of
Industry and Tourism for a
varification of the Canadian
Content of the York -Shipley
boiler. He said he was
"almost positive" the boiler
in question would not meet
Canadian Content
regulations, but it could be
proven through duty
documents.
In the committee's report
to the board it says, "The
Ministry of Industry and
Tourism states that
'everything added in Canada
- labor, materials, tran-
sportation, duty, taxes and
the Canadian supplier's
profit - qualifies as Canadian
Content. Quite simple,
Canadian Content is the
value of the supplier's total
actual bid minus the dutiable
value of any imported goods
or services'."
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at
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