The official cost estimate for one of Atlantic Canada’s largest infrastructure projects remains under wraps, as officials told a Nova Scotia legislature committee they couldn’t provide a number.
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Gerard Jessome, an official with the provincial Public Works Department, told the public accounts committee that the project’s cost is proprietary information belonging to the only bidder left, the Plenary PCL Health consortium. Karen Oldfield, CEO of Nova Scotia’s health authority, also deflected several attempts by Liberal and NDP members of the committee to get information on the project’s potential cost.“In the fullness of time the numbers will be hard numbers, they will be known,” she said. “There’s nothing sinister happening here, we are in a procurement process.”
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