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Another Ottawa councillor has joined the criticism of city employees’ decision to allow an SNC-Lavalin bid on LRT construction without telling councillors the company’s “technical score” missed the official cut-off point.

“This is glaring and it needs to be explained,” Theresa Kavanagh said Monday. “I’m sort of feeling like they treated us like we didn’t understand, and therefore, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll figure this out for you.’

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“Now we’re getting the numbers afterwards. I think it’s a bit insulting to have to pry it out afterwards.”

The city released documents on Friday on how it allowed a bid by SNC-Lavalin on the $1.6-billion Trillium Line contract to continue being considered, even though that bid hadn’t met the minimum technical score threshold. Councillors had been unable to get the full information last March, when they were dealing with the procurement contract.

Kavanagh supported the winning bid and says she would not necessarily change her position based on the new information, “but we have to be treated as adults and see all the information.”