Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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When we went out to the site, we found out that
actually 290 had been implemented. So, it was kind
of interesting to go through and see. Oh, this is
interesting and, in some cases, it was an idea that
came in later that it just happened to be the same
as what had been in a VE report earlier from a
contractor or maybe through a changes clause, still
trying to find out whether or not this is going to
continue. We're continuing this program to go out
and look at this, but it is bringing back some
lessons learned.
Yes, in some cases, if a project had a
problem with budget, they started going back and
looking at, well what did we leave on the table? Is
there something else we can do to improve the
project? Maybe during the early stages of planning
or design they were like, oh, no, no, no, we need to
leave this, but then when they actually started
building it and said no, we can't afford a function
if we don't find something else to take money, they
would go back and do this.
So it was kind of an interesting process.
And I'm sure Greg can talk to it. He was one of the
people that went with me on one of the trips to look
at the site. And it was invaluable, I believe, for
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