Learned their lesson? Such penalties don't come without a price. So now we are paying $12 million per car instead of $4.2 million.well they definitely learned their lesson
Learned their lesson? Such penalties don't come without a price. So now we are paying $12 million per car instead of $4.2 million.
There's a lesson here - but I don't think it's what you think it is!
I thought it was pretty clear. The cars are now costing almost 3 times the price. This isn't saving any money.please enlighten us ignorant peasants who know nothing of these metrics.
I thought it was pretty clear. The cars are now costing almost 3 times the price. This isn't saving any money.
Not necessarily, they've already built the penalty price into the build price. So they won't lose money if penalized; they'll just make less money.well regardless of what the purchase price is the penalty is 35 times higher than bbr so if at all it will at least give alstom a further incentive to deliver on time.
you can't disregard the price.....the penalties that are larger are part of the price establishment process......they have fattened their margins knowing that if they miss by a day it costs a bit.well regardless of what the purchase price is the penalty is 35 times higher than bbr so if at all it will at least give alstom a further incentive to deliver on time.
well at this rate, the costs have already sunken in and the risk of bbr missing the date and costing us millions as well more far outweighs the money spent on plan B. (provided that the 500,000/day loss projections are near what is actually lost).you can't disregard the price.....the penalties that are larger are part of the price establishment process......they have fattened their margins knowing that if they miss by a day it costs a bit.
I sure hope the quality/ performance penalties are equally significant and enforceabe. Otherwise GO will get junk, delivered precisely on time.
- Paul
Why is it that people complained about Toronto sole sourcing the contract for the Toronto Rocket trains but yet poel are ok with Metrolinx wasting money and sole sourcing a second company to build something just in case a company that is trying to work with them fails because Metrolinx is acting like Kindergarten children in a sandbox.Latest news article here.
I'm not okay with it. Metrolinx just burned half-a-billion $ unnecessarily. Heads should roll.Why is it that people complained about Toronto sole sourcing the contract for the Toronto Rocket trains but yet poel are ok with Metrolinx wasting money and sole sourcing a second company to build something just in case a company that is trying to work with them fails because Metrolinx is acting like Kindergarten children in a sandbox.
I'm not okay with it. Metrolinx just burned half-a-billion $ unnecessarily. Heads should roll.