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Mr. George Lockwood Technical Reviewer State Water Resources Control Board UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK CLEANUP FUND July 3, 1996 Page 2 A Cost Proposal was received from Ground Zero Analysis, Inc. on April 1, 1996. We received correspondence from McLaren Hart dated March 14, 1996 and Environ dated March 20, 1996; both indicated that they were not going to bid. No other bids were received. 1 placed a telephone call to you and told you that I had put this project out to bid and only received one bid. I asked you if I could submit the one bid, along with the letters declining to bid to obtain pre-approval of costs. You advised me that this was not acceptable and that I should either 1) contact all the consultants I sent bids to and ask them if they intend to bid, 2) send the IFBs to different consultants or 3) contact San Joaquin County and request their list of suggested consultants to send the IFBs to. On May 8, 1996, our office contacted the consultants which were sent IFBs. We spoke to several persons and left several messages as follows: 1. Dave Jenkins of Kleinfelder requested another copy of the IFB. I faxed another copy of the IFB and asked to be advised if they would submit a bid. 2. A message was left on voice mail at Brown & Caldwell. A return phone call informed us that they had decided not to bid on the project. 3. We left a voice mail message with Levine-Fricke requesting if they intended to submit a bid. J.P. Salgado returned the call and said (hey would review (he 1111 which we previously sent and get back to us. We faxed another copy of the 1FB to him. We asked that they submit a bid before May 31st. 4. I spoke to a receptionist at Harding-Lawson. She indicated that she would route the IFB to appropriate party and would have him/her call back. Mr. Henderson called back and said he would route the IFB to proper party. 5. Ecology & Environment never returned our phone calls nor responded to our IFBs. 6. Dames & Moore indicated they never received the IFB and requested that we send them another copy, which we did on May 9, 1996. We requested that if these consultants were to submit a bid, we would appreciate receiving it before May 31, 1996.