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From: Richard Kahn < > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 6:32 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Cc: Rich Barnett Subject: 71st Street - Chiller/Tower Proposal Attachments: Epstein Residence.pdt Untitled attachment 00138.htm Rich B and I both followed up this week (numerous =hone calls) with Pierpont (other bidder on this job) whose original bid =ame in at 330,000. Their bid was missing Electrical and Protection =hich Rich B estimated to be approximately 20,000 - 30,000. =nbsp;Pierpont came to the house last week and was supposed to have new =roposal this week. Neither of us received a return phone call =or revised bid to reflect additional costs. This lack of =ommunication and follow through has left me very uncomfortable with =his vendor. The other bid we received was from =D Winston (dated June 19th 2012) in the amount of 357,255. Rich B =ailed ADW in Feb 2013 and asked them to update bid and lower price. =nbsp;They said that they have had price increases since June 2012 =owever in good faith they lowered bid by 5,000 to 352,255. This =eek when i spoke to ADW i asked for further price reductions. =nbsp;They reluctantly said they would lower their price to 350,000 =owever they could not go any lower. I also reviewed the scope =f their work and wanted to highlight a few =acts: a)Lead Time is 10-12 =eeks Work (start to finish) 3 Weeks If we send =eposit by Monday we would be in position to begin job in middle of June =013. b) Sales Tax will not be charged as we =i