There was another issue, as well--and I wouldn't characterize it that way--and again, I would also ask my colleagues at Public Works to address this. It was felt that in the interest of fairness and to keep rebidding costs reasonable, we shouldn't change too many of the provisions of the RFP, particularly where they hadn't been questioned in the past, and this was one element that hadn't really been questioned previously.
On January 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.