Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M

Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:49AM (#15525932)

Should be easy to fix, if the contract for work includes a "penalty for being wrong for circumstances completely within the bidders control that they should have seen".

Austin government did this for its MoPac toll express lanes and got them for way cheaper than what they should have paid: https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2017/09/27/big-settl...

However, the project ran over for two years longer than it should have (it was supposed to be completed in September 2015, and they are only just now wrapping it up). So I guess no one really won there aside from the Austin transportation budget guys, except the populace hates them now for traffic jamming the place up for two years longer than they said they would.

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Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:55AM (#15526838)

Isn't completion something that is at least in part in the bidders control. Did they employ all available personnel and work 24 hours?

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Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:24AM (#15527190)

Sort of, when they could. In this case there were penalties for going longer on the project. Main problems ended up being weather (heavy rains) and lack of knowledge of the soil - many changes were made to the project because the contractor (C2HM) did not do a proper soil survey where they were going to be digging.

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