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Sarasota News Leader March 22, 2013 In a Feb. 13 memo to the County Commission, staff explained that Erickson Consulting Engineers of Sarasota worked on the part of the project involving construction of an outfall pipe in the Gulf of Mexico ��� ���the most challenging portion of the pipeline,��� according to the memo. Erickson estimated the cost at $681,475. The corresponding cost in the lowest bid the county received ��� which staff had to reject because the firm lacked appropriate qualifications ��� was $2,291,200, the memo noted. Page 48 dy. ���We don���t have a recourse contractually,��� she told Barbetta. Nonetheless, she said, Erickson had indicated a willingness to forgo its fee for the portion of its contract involving the estimate. ���How about malpractice insurance?��� Barbetta asked. ���I don���t want to roll over on this,��� he added. ���The taxpayers cannot afford to eat $3 million.��� ���The estimate is just that ��� an estimate,��� Eastwood responded. ���Absolutely, it was not ���I still have some serious problems with how done well.��� the error occurred,��� Barbetta told Eastwood. When the bid recommendation comes to the ���It���s a major error.��� board next month, Commissioner Christine Eastwood responded that staff had met with Robinson told Eastwood, ���I would like to see representatives of the County Attorney���s Of- the domino effect all the way down to the last fice to discuss the possibility of a legal reme- dollar and the last project,��� regarding other A diagram shows the area where the excavated material will be stored on Siesta Key and where the new stormwater drainage pond will be built. Image courtesy Sarasota County