At this moment, we are still working on stabilizing the situation as SCG is new and we are monitoring their performance. Until then, maybe we will not look at collaborating with FMC…I don’t know the details, but I don’t think FMC contacted us for collaboration either.
We found out about the price difference during PMO audit in October 2014 and we immediately flag it and confronted Titanco. Titanco wasn’t co-operating and we had little success in moving forward. Then, we got FFS to involve and Brian had worked very hard to negotiate with Titanco but to no avail…this took a couple months. Then, FFS started talking to SCG to build an agent relationship with FFS (to replace Titanco)….this is a business deal and it will take months…their technical ability needed to be evaluated, commercial negotiation had to happen and contract signing, all these takes time.
Then, SCG was introduced to Jacobs in April 2015…then, we spent time pre-qualifying them and spent time justifying using them to Shell CP. There were some challenges convincing Shell CP because SCG was new. We finally awarded the contract to SCG on 17th June. We have been working with them and monitoring their performance.
LFI just came out in November 2015 – as a lesson learnt, not a proposal on what we will do (I thought I needed to clarify this). So, this is solved and at least delivery is not affected. We just needed to continue to press Titanco to rebate us the out-standing…but they can choose not to work with us and walk away. This has been a challenge but we are still working on it.
I think the team can do better at communication as I’m surprised that you are not aware of the whole development of this incident. Let me know if I need to brief you further.
I hope the above is clear and it answers your concerns.