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Interesting. What happened in the end? Everyone made to cough up, or were challenges made, and were any successful?
Howard-
Challenges were made and after the initial 'we followed procedure and put it out to tender to ensure best value... but there's only a handful of companies that can take on a project of this size...' the estimate was revised down, then revised again up but still less than the initial. As it stands with all works having been completed and charges for it having been placed on our accounts it looks like they've overcharged about 20% which there was another TRA meeting to discuss at the end of February that I was unable to attend but have now requested the minutes on multiple occasions and received no reply after having previously contacted them about the appearance of an overcharge and being fobbed off.
±ln(x)
I've never seen a TRA meeting so full of livid people as the one that followed those estimates being received.