Statement provided to us by: Ryan Price, Vice President, Rives Worrell. Our response to the school districts Request for Proposal, including forms 4 and 5, was submitted on May 23, 2013we had not been awarded the project. Here is how things subsequently unfolded:

July 23, 2013 Interviewed for the project as 1 of 5 Construction Management firms shortlisted. We presented our project team, project logistics plan, project schedule, cost control plan, communication plan and MWBE outreach. Did not discuss forms 4 and 5 nor any of the MWBE contractors listed on the forms. August 8,, 2013 Informed of the intent to award and the intent to negotiate contract terms for Construction Management. August 21, 2013 Signed contract agreement September 24, 2013 Received Notice to Proceed to start preconstruction (estimating) services. At this point, the design was very conceptual. The Notice to Proceed allowed us to begin working with the architect to create a cost model for the project program that met the stated cost limitation dictated by SCCPSS. April 8, 2014 Upon receipt of the Issued for Construction design documents, we issued invitations to bid to over 323 subcontractors including the subs listed on form 5. Prior to sending invitations to bid, during design development, we coordinated the following Local and MWBE outreach efforts to inform the community specifically about the Hesse K-8 project:

11-25-14 Met with Parsons, SCCPSS Program Manager, and VanGuard to outline LMWBE outreach plan and meetings. Also discussed with Ms. Estella Shabazz, with VanGuard, and Joe Millsaps, with Parsons.

We advertised the bid documents and bid process at Clayton Digital and Reed Construction Data.

We advertised the project, bid process, and scheduled outreach meetings in the following local newspapers:

o Savannah Morning News 1-31-14 & 2-7-14 o The Savannah Tribune Submitted 1-31-14 o Savannah Herald Submitted 1-31-14

We held the following outreach meetings for LWMBE subcontractors: Subcontractors received several emails reminding them of the opportunity. Sign-in sheets from these LWMBE outreach meetings are attached, documenting attendance.

o 2-17, 2014 Hesse Media Center discussed the overall job schedule, future meetings, teaming opportunities, etc. Vanguard was in attendance.

o 3-6-14 Hesse Media Center discussed the newly distributed site package, where drawings could be downloaded/printed, schedules for remainder of packages, scopes of work included, possible teaming opportunities, etc.

May 21, 2014 SCCPSS School Board approved the guaranteed maximum price proposal for Hesse. This approval gave us the authority to make subcontractor selections and contract awards. Prior to this approval, we contractually cannot enter into any agreement with subcontractors and vendors. Regarding the process, our contract for Hesse requires us to competitively bid out all scopes of work as part of creating the guaranteed maximum price.

Upon our review of the bids for each trade (scope of work), we then submit our recommendation for subcontractor selection, for each trade of work, to Parsons for approval. The Form 5 not only includes contradictory language, within the form, by being titled proposed, but it also contradicts the requirements of our contract with SCCPSS for the construction of Hesse. To address your question more fully, we are still in the process of subcontractor procurement and making subcontractor recommendations to Parsons. To date, we have awarded one contract to the subs listed on Form 5. Economy Masonry, working with Cornerstone Masonry, will provide the masonry scope of work. Of the nine companies listed on Form 5, submitted in May of 2013, only four submitted a bid on Hesse; however, we attempted to contact all nine for pricing proposals. Of $15MM in awarded contracts to date $6,094,362 in contracts has been awarded to WMBE subs