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MEMO <br />TO: DAVE HARTLEY <br />FROM: MERLAND OTTO <br />DATE: February 3, 1989 <br />RE: AIRPORT NOTICE IN DODGE REPORTS <br />You requested information on how the notice for the Gateway <br />Airport Improvement project appeared in Dodge Reports (apparently <br />it was incorrectly referred to as the Builder's Exchange). Dodge <br />Reports supplies a service of tracking projects and proposed <br />projects with their primary market being vendors and suppliers of <br />materials. Dodge Scan and Dodge Reports enjoys a limited <br />clientele of contractors who also use the service for leads on <br />potential projects. They periodically call engineering and <br />architectural firms to ask for information on the status of <br />projects. Such was the case last month when someone called and <br />requested information on airport projects which we were working <br />on. While I don't have a copy of the notice, as I recall the <br />program sequence was correct in the notice and the notice was <br />identified as a planning study. Unfortunately the notice <br />incorrectly reported the program schedule and did not mention <br />that the project was subject to necessary approvals. (I suppose <br />that its taken for granted that all projects are subject to <br />approval). <br />Attached is a sample of the type of information that such a <br />notice generates. I have never known anyone in the industry to <br />misconstrue or mistakenly identify such a notice as an <br />advertisement? for bids. It does, however, provide a valid <br />service which enables the design profession to receive additional <br />project information which may be of use and it does give a <br />project more exposure, hence more bidders and lower bids if and <br />when a project goes out for bids. <br />If you have any questions or direction in this regard, let me <br />know. <br />Merland Otto <br />/ckl <br />