one bider didn't bid because of the prequalification process he was upset because the original biders were bidding. they expressed concerns about the complexity of it and that was the major concern not to bid as well. so as we did that the glazing system the same outreach wore the potential biders and looking at the best way to repackage that >> again, the repackaging of the design build i talked about earlier with the design and the basic materials established we have the same kinds of performance the symmetric and wind and blast and those criteria can't be deviated it has to be built with a high-level of safety their allowed to bring their own systems and apply it to the system to make it attractive to them to bid and build. so >> so the goal is to readvertise in may of 2014 to main the schedule for the project. the third package was the t g8 bus ramps. the bus ramps i'm sure you're aware of connect the structure to sunbather 80 west of the bay bridge that's a 2 thousand foot structure this is a portion of it over howard street. the bid date was march 6, 2014 last year the budget wa

. >> just to add my understanding is that one of the 3 biders dropped out because they didn't could not combli with the project and the proprietor systems didn't meet the design intent so that left the two biders you remaining. >> so on to the design intent you're saying i guess i'm trying to understand what would be different you're going to be having performance criteria i guess wasn't the case and here the budget how do you know that criteria can be met. >> a lot of what we're doing at this moment we're meeting with the contractors and explaining what we intended our design intent was soliciting their ideas to take into account into setting up the new packages. we're not taking a specific contractors system and putting it in but we're understanding what their systems are and having them understand what our issues are and trying to, you know, actually just market the project to these contractors this is a good project you ought to participate we're willing to take into account your ideas and here's issue budget can we work together. they have to extensively bid and meet the criteria.

we had 5 pre-qualified biders consumer construction and other submitted bids at connecticut could. connecticut could informed us they were bidding other projects and couldn't submit bids they were busy and the csa can wanted to focus their attention on the bridge construction and not this type of work. this - this project had trans group had several deduct alternates they were approved as a part of the july project alternate 4 was added later than. it had all the for $48.7 million they submitted a bid into through that and the bids are evaluated on the plus bids and the alternates. it's recommended that we accept the deduct alternates 13 and reject 4 it provides a structural architecture concrete finish number two, of providing a set of concrete the bid parts for this particular alternate is 64 hundred dollars and $3.4 million and this a alternate is you much more than 64 million dollar and we ask you reject this and possibility discuss it with shimming any questions and is what caused the higher prices. it's solely recommended that the project be w5ur9d to show me any questions th

million so we understand the bid >> are reevaluating our performance to change that or even allow biders to bid on alternates instead of this much light you'll get this much light. >> a couple of the symmetric those are code driven we're stuck with that but we are revisiting some of the rda to make sure we've begun beyond but to having a safe building it par monument we're balancing the requirements and make sure we've interpret them correctly and put those things in the new performance criteria so the contractors can you know take advantage of the economies that are there. >> and are we also looking at the scope the glazing for example, you said is a glass coverings for the elevators e.r. escalators that are up top from the sketch the bus level had a glass enclosure although art closed at top. >> we're looking at because of the glass requirements it has to be fairly thick laminated section we're looking to change those out for lesser expensive but to main the protection for example, the rain doesn't get into the elevators. it's important to note all the things we're evaluating have are