THEY ARE SHAPING UP TO HAMI AN APPROACH TO EUGD FOR A THIRD LEGGED CREDIT ARRANGEMENT, POSSIBLY EARLY HEXT WEEK.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH STEERING GROUP, STARTED TODAY, ARE CONTINUING TOMORROW ONLY, THENEAPTER THEY ARE DISPERSING TO EUROPE WHERE ACTION WILL CONTINUE.
THEY HAVE HAD A VERY DIFFICULT DAY'', FIRST BEING FACED WITH ECGD TERMS, SECOND WITH THE REQUEST FOR A PRICE INDICATION.
AT PRESENT THEY DO NOT SEE HOW THEY CALL GIVE A PRICE SECAUSE OF THE PAUCITY OF TECHNICAL PIFORMATION. THEY GAVE AS EXAMPLES THAT, IT IS HOT YET KNOW HOW MANY ESCALATORS THERE WILL EE, OR WHAT SORT OF TICKET NACHINES, NOR IS THERE EVEN
A STANDARD STATION DESIGN.
THEIR LEADING TECHNICIAN, WHO HAS BUILT UNDERGROUNDS IN MANY OTHER PLACES, WAS APPARENTLY INCREASINGLY INCREDULOUS AS EVERY QUESTION WAS MISWERED WITH DON'T KNOW, THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN LATEST CONSULTANT DESIGNS AND TEST FINDINGS ETC DUT REGARD THESE AS ALKOST NORTHLESS.
THEY VERE ANAZED TO LEARN THAT MASS TRANSIT UNIT HAS ONLY THREE. DAYS TO QVALUATE CONSULTANTS REPORTS, TRIS IS TYPICAL OF GENERAL IMPRESSION I HAD OF THEIR LACK OF PREPAREDNESS AID UNDERSTANDING OF LOCAL SITUATION AND REQUIREMENT.
THEY WERE TOLD BY HADDON-CAVE THAT PRICE INDICATION WOULD NOT BE REQARED AS DINDING DUT ALSO THAT IF ONE OF THE CONSORTIUM OFFERS A PARTICULARLY LOU PRICE AT THIS STAGE HE MIGHT SETTLE FOR THEN. THIS HAS THEM WORRIED THAT SOMEONE WILL MAKE AN IRRESPONSIBLE LOU BID. ALTERNATIVELY THAT ONE OF THE OTHERS MIGHT BE CLEVENER THAN THEY AT DRAWING UP A PRICE INDICATION AT A LOW FIGURE BUT WITH VELL SOLICITED ASSUMPTIONS AUD CUNNINGLY DEVISED QUALIFICATIONS.
THEY WERE TOLD THAT IN ANY CASE INTENTION IS TO DECIDE
ON A CONSORTIUM CIF THAT IS FAVOURED) BY JUHE AT LATEST. THEY DO NOT SEE HOW THIS IS POSSIBLE.
THEY WERE ASKED TO SUBMIT THERE PRICE INDICATION IN LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS BUT PROPOSE TO PROTEST TOMORROW THAT THIS 13 HOT FRASICQJPHTCOLUONABLE AND THAT IT IS NOT FARE THAT BRITISH GROUP SHOULD BE ALLOWED SIX WEEKS - AND TO GO LAST AFTER BEING FIRST THIS ROUND.
THEY HAD LONG SESSION TODAY, FOLLOWED BY TECHNICAL MEETINGS THIS EVENING AND ARE STILL TRYING TO DECIDE LINE TO TAKE TOMORROW.
I HAVE SUGGESTED - AND THEY ACCEPT - THAT HEDIATE NEED IS TO ENSURE PACKAGE APPROACH AND WORRY ABOUT WHICH PACKAGE LATER,
THEY ARE MERVOUS OF WHAT JAPANESE MAY OFFER BUT AT PRESENT HAVE LITTLE MIFORMATION ON THEIR TEAKS AND DONT TRUST WHAT THEY HEAR, SO FAR WE HAVE PICKED UP NOTHING ON THE JAPANESE TALKS,
GENERAL TAPRESSTON IS THAT THE ANGLO-FRANCO-GERMAN CAGREED
ORDER CONSORTIVI ARG DEVILDERED,
SUMPRISED AND IN SOME DISARRY. LIKELY THEY WILL MAKE EARLY APPROACH TO ECGD - AND PERHAPS TO BRITISH GROUP - TO GET MAXIMUM POSSIBLE PARTNERSHIP.
INCIDENTALLY SULME SAY'S CAGAIND THAT AND E SCALE
MOULE NOT DE LYLIVESTED IN TAUDERING FOR A HULTI CONTRACT, THEY HAVE
ASTONPOR BLAS ON THEIR OPEN LOOKS.
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