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increased cost are extremely low by any standards of the industry. In other words, while there were an unacceptable number of minor errors and changes to the documents, the over all design of the basic system and building was well done. The County should understand that everyone has contributed financially to this project. The Architects and Engineers were not compensated for the air quality changes or audio visual changes made by the County. Additionally, everyone has accepted their own cost for the extended duration of the project. Our rough estimate of these costs are as follows: Contractor 101A mos. 0 45,000/mos. = 472,500 Arch/Eng. Design Fee on Air Quality changes = 15,000 Project Administration 101h mos. 0 6,000 = 63.000 78,000 Program Managers 101h mos. @ 16,000 = - 168,000 All of these firms have agreed not to attempt to recover any of these costs if we can just close out the project per our recommendations. Again, if you would visit Exhibit "A," you will note that the Architect and ourselves are giving up any claim to recover our extended cost as a result of pursuing liquidated damages against the Contractor. This, in the Architect's case, would off set any cost the County would have against the Architect. 3. The Contractor has notified us of his request for arbitration of two issues. The first is the failure and repair of the infiltrator beds in the amount of $278,000. The second issue is an approximate $30,000 millwork issue which a formal request has not been received yet, but the contractor has advised us he does intend to arbitrate. Both of these issues will continue to be resolved under the arbitration process and we feel the County has an excellent chance at defeating both of these issues. Should the County be found liable under either of these issues, it is our opinion that they would have legal recourse against the Architects and Engineers. 4. Finally, we recommend that the County issue, as soon as possible, a Purchase Order to Mid -State Mechanical for the completion of the air quality changes to the building. This Purchase Order in the amount of $64,986.00 is mandatory to make the system operate properly. See -Exhibit "C" for a complete list of work involved in this change. We feel that we have negotiated a fair price with Mid -State and must use them to maintain the integrity of the new building warranties. The Architect and Engineers have agreed to contribute to this cost based upon their share of responsibility. The amount of their contribution has not been determined at this time, but we feel the work can not be delayed. We will continue to evaluate what we estimate the cost split should be and make our recommendation to the County upon our completion. 47 GOOK 94 PAG.,7 MARCH 28, 1995