The City knew about Wild Building Contractors "plan" to do the construction work itself and to contract with Brewer, Ingram & Fuller for architectural services.
To avoid having to competitively bid out the construction and to help implement the "plan," the City's Todd Morgan called and sent emails to Lisa Dunn (TDOT) asking how to go about having WBC declared a "sole source" contractor for the project.
[Sole source means the City wanted to have WBC named as the only construction company "sole source" who could handle the project for the City by coming up with some special or unique ability of Wild to perform the construction work]
In the email below, Morgan says Dunn will be forwarding a "sole source" letter to the City and Morgan will pass that along to Tim and David (Wild). The email is copied to Millennium Partners David and Tim Wild (Wild Building Contractors) and to Dan Brewer and Lisa Hoskins of the architectural firm Brewer Ingram & Fuller (BIF).
It is important to note that BIF does not have a contract with the City at this time (6/3/10) but is the architectural firm with whom MSP and Wild and the City have been working since as far back as October 2009. The City will hurriedly advertise for architectural proposals on July 11, 2010, and an "evaluation committee" will send a letter to BIF on July 20, 2010, telling BIF of its "selection."
The email indicates that Dunn has recommended that Morgan and the City justify the request for "sole source" designation for WBC by focusing on the need to complete the project "quickly and efficiently."
[In a later email, TDOT will inform the City that the construction is not unique and WBC can not be designated as "sole source." TDOT will also inform the City that they can pick BIF, the "firm of choice," as architect but they will have to go through some hoops before making it official.]
You can left-click on the email to enlarge it for reading.
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