Mr. Gerber of the redevelopment corporation said bid specifications, to be advertised this summer, will include his agency's 2003 time frame.
And some of Sikorsky's rivals are voicing an increasingly common complaint — that bid specifications are being written so narrowly they are driving away potential competitors.
Correction: October 23, 2003, Thursday An article on Tuesday about the custom-made ambulances purchased by the New York City Fire Department misidentified the union that has a hand in shaping the bid specifications.
Charges were filed against Mr. Roberts after he provided Maximus with advance copies of bid documents, information on bid specifications and other details about a project on which the company was preparing to bid.
When the state developed bid specifications for the inspection contract, which called for a total of 129 lanes, that number was based on an estimate that 2,400 owners of private stations would voluntarily invest $50,000 or so in the new equipment needed to perform the enhanced inspections, Mr. Goldman said.
Stephen Varone, the director of operations for Rand Engineering in Manhattan, said that property owners, including co-op and condominium boards, should make sure that any bid specifications sent to roofing contractors make it clear what material should be used and how it should be installed.
Topics discussed in the paper include: Project Objectives, Project Stages, Scope Definition, Design Basis, Codes and Standards, Technology Selection, Capital Cost Estimation, Schedule Development and Control, Operating Cost Estimation, Value Improvement Practices, Equipment Specification, Contractor Bid Specification, Constructability Review, Construction Management, and Commissioning.
Initially, the early bidding specifications were for helicopters that flew to 18,000 feet, Mr. Tyagi explained, a height the AgustaWestland helicopters could not reach.
Congressional investigators are also looking into whether the Air Force tailored the bidding specifications, called the Operational Requirements Document, for the tanker jet contract to benefit Boeing at the expense of the pilots who would fly the jets.
Even if others are keen on a field, however huge, in pristine jungle nearly 500 kilometres and a mountain range from the populated coast, new bids would take time: Perupetro, the state oil firm, says it would take the rest of 1998 to prepare bidding specifications, under the government's new plan to divide the deal into three: operation of the field, the main pipelines, and distribution.
It will take about a year to obtain the go-ahead from the State Education Department, then another year for bids and specifications to be completed, Mr. Singer said, with work planned to be done during the summers of 2010 and 2011.
