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Transit center itself and we are very, very careful about the interaction of the two buildings structurally, one with the other. The elevator core is also part of the structural system. It is four feet thick, at the lowest level and tapered in size of the tower and goes up and so it allows an enormous amount of stability to the towers structure. And in a building this tall, it is very interesting, obviously seismic design is critical but at this height of 1070, it is really wind that one has to design for primarily over seismic, if you design for wind, appropriately you have designed to seismi...

And equally that it is all to supply the materials provided for all shifts and all shifts not just eight hours a day. And one of those will be a certified mechanic as well and so any instant repairs can be done. They will conduct all maintenance and inspections on a regular basis. Including certifications and dismantle all of the equipment at the end. We started with. We received a cost estimate independent one from webb corp in july, and for duration of four years starting in january, for 12,000,000. Three proposals received on december the 14th and anvil builders was selected on september th...

Of this work or nearly all of it themselves. But they conducted to ten small sbe companies to cover specialized work and they are all in fact, companies five of them in San Francisco, that we worked with before, with Specialized Knowledge on and can use that without having to reinvent and have done the traffic counts for other projects for the city planning and they have done, Hazardous Material inspection and they have down archaeological and Historical Building works all for us. And so it is a very good team that acom has put together and no need for a learning cycle and they actually propos...

All of the three proposals were inside of the original estimate. So the staff is really quite comfortable to recommend that the board authorizes the contract for 9. 2 million to anvil builders. Are there any questions . I just have one quick question. And so, being that you had three applicants but two were not responsive, because they didnt submit all of the required documents . Did we get an understanding as to why that happened during the process . It would appear that that would, pure laziness, frankly and it was obvious in the documents and they signed off the check as to say that they ha...

Over a fouryear period. And we have allowed for that, but we negotiated with the contractor of a mixed overhead rate throughout for the whole four years, as a percentage on the labor. And all of the monthly Equipment Rental rates were fixed and anvil builders, in fact, sbe certified and also have a disadvantage of veterans business, who actually will be supplying the design and the electrical connections. And they have an agreement with usa hoists to provide all of the equipments which is leased to the project. So the contract will, in fact, exceed the 80 percent sbe. And we agreed with the ne...