I have a Return to Written Question 4-16(2) asked by Mr. David Ramsay on February 8, 2008, regarding the Deh Cho Bridge Concession Agreement.
Did the Government of the Northwest Territories have the updated cost-benefit analysis prior to signing the concession agreement on the Deh Cho Bridge Project on September 28, 2007?
The GNWT did not have the updated cost-benefit analysis prior to signing the concession agreement in September 2007. The 2007 updated analysis was not submitted to the GNWT until December 15, 2007. Though preliminary drafts of the 2007 update were provided in October and November 2007, no draft of the update was available prior to the signing of the concession agreement.
What economic analysis did the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Department of Transportation have at their disposal to make the decision to proceed with signing the concession agreement on the Deh Cho Bridge Project?
Who did the economic analysis?
At the time of the signing, the GNWT had the 2002 benefit-cost analysis of the Deh Cho Bridge report and a 2003 update of the same, both of which were prepared by Nichols Applied Management.
