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March 11, 1988 <br /> Mr. David Childs, City Manager BWBRARCHITECTS <br /> 3301 Silver Lake Blvd. <br /> St. Anthony Village, MN 55418 <br /> Re: St. Anthony Village Liquor Store <br /> Commission Number 86033.4 <br /> Dear David: <br /> A project that has been very difficult for all parties concerned is <br /> coming to a close and I am sure that all of us will be glad to see this <br /> project reach its completion. Per your request, we have prepared this <br /> . letter as a means of reviewing the services, and the corresponding fees <br /> provided by BWBR. <br /> After the initial bids for the project were rejected by the Council and <br /> we were directed to scale the project back, we negotiated a fair fee , <br /> with the City in an amount of $11,330 to revise the construction <br /> drawings. --This fee was based upon the 'time required to delete the <br /> basement, eliminate the bar, and otherwise modify the drawings for the <br /> public re-bid of the liquor warehouse including architectural , • <br /> structural , mechanical and electrical engineering. A good deal of the <br /> effort that was allocated to the original design and construction <br /> drawings was carried over to the redesign effort. We estimate the value <br /> of this time to be in the area of $12,000. Adding this $12,000 to the <br /> $11,330, the design fee would be $23,330 for design and development of <br /> drawings and bidding of the liquor store warehouse without basement. In <br /> addition, the specifications that had been printed for the first bid <br /> were reused in the re-bid, thereby avoiding a duplication of printing <br /> costs in the range of $4,000. <br /> The invoice we have sent to the City for construction and administration <br /> services which is current through Feb. 24, 1988, is for an amount of <br /> $20,523. This amount is more than double the $9,500 that was estimated <br /> for construction administration services . I think it is pretty easy to <br /> see why this amount was so much higher than the estimate. The public <br /> bidding process that is mandated by law forced us all to work with a <br /> contractor that was not of our choosing. The contract time that was <br /> indicated on the contractors bid form and in the construction contract <br /> was 160 calendar days . The actual time spent was 262 days through <br /> March 21 and the punch list is still not complete; therefore we are <br /> looking at a ten month total construction time instead of the the five <br /> months that was originally in the construction contract . It follows <br /> that if the contractor is spending twice the time that is necessary to <br /> construct the building that the architects will also be doubling their <br /> time because it will obviously <br /> • <br /> Bergstedt Wahlberg Bergquist Rohkohl <br /> 400 Sibley St.,Suite 500 <br /> St. Paul. Minnesota 55101 Phone(612)222-3701 <br />