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L. Lightman, Esq., Department of Trade
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18 January, 1978
Following this statement, the Mass Transit Railway produced an increasing number of requirements to be satisfied. These became more and more impossible to satisfy and on Saturday morning, 18 October, 1975 after representation to me by our Estimating Director - I telephoned Mr. Thompson and told him that it was apparent that we could not come to terms with the Mass Transit Railway Corporation or meet their increasing demands. We were therefore withdrawing from the project completely. Thompson told me 202 had been accede
the Sapanage.
All tender documents for other contracts were then returned to the Consulting Engineers and we directed our efforts elsewhere.
Early in November 1975, Mr. Thompson telephoned me to ask if we would take out the documents for Contracts 101 and 107. He said that he was finding it impossible to interest British Contractors and this affected his access to British lines of credit. He said he had cleared the way for us to joint venture with an Hong Kong company of British origins Gammon (Hong Kong) Limited, a wholly- owned subsidiary of Jardine Mathieson.
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British Contractors were not interested in these projects because of the terms of contract the Mass Transit Railway Corporation sought to impose in the environment of the organization of an Authority like the Mass Transit Railway Corporation.
It was very late in the tender period when we decided
(a) to form a joint venture with Gammon and F. J. C. Lilley
known as G.K.L.
(b) To submit our tenders with strong qualifications.
We doubted the extent and the quality of the information supplied by the Mass Transit Railway and were not prepared to undertake the work without positive assurances that the costs of any changes of design and methods would be reimbursed to us.
Our tenders were submitted in January 1976. From that time onwards there were constant changes in the Mass Transit Railway's require- ments, conditions of contract, etc.
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Our people were called to Hong Kong in mid-February 1976 to discuss our offers. They sought to persuade us to remove our strongest qualification. They did not succeed and this was confirmed to them
letter dated 23 February, 1976 which was, in effect, our tender incorporating all of the points dealt with during the negotiations.
We were instructed to commence work at the beginning of March 1976. Since that time, as various issues have arisen in the course of the Works, it has become increasingly apparent GKL and MTR have differing views as to what the Contract is between them.
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