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The Rideau Transit Group received the best technical and financial scores in the Stage 1 LRT contract competition, but newly released records show bid evaluators recorded flaws in the proposal on several fronts, including on construction, design and communications.

The Stage 1 procurement scoring documents, obtained by this newspaper through access to information, show RTG beat the two other shortlisted bidders for the $2.1-billion construction contract and long-term maintenance deal, with evaluators in 2012 ranking RTG the top bidder based on the consortium’s final procurement score. RTG met the minimum technical scoring thresholds for the massive project and the strength of its financial bid secured a win.

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While the city released the Stage 2 O-Train procurement scores earlier this year, it has never released the Stage 1 procurement scores.

The Stage 1 contract scoring offered comments on each of the 19 technical categories, and RTG largely received positive comments from evaluators. “Strong team,” “strong approach with the use of sophisticated tools,” “very good overall strategies” and “solid understanding” of risks were some of the comments recorded by evaluators.