Roofing Manufacturer facing legal action in Ohio.

Friends:

I blame this nightmare on School Administrators who don’t do their homework.  It is against the law for Administrators to exclude all competition in favor of only ONE Manufacturer.  Actually, they shouldn’t be getting their information from a salesman/woman with glossy fliers in the first place.

NOTE: Retired 2003, do not solicit, nor accept, compensation, or personal advancement of any kind.

Get the proper information from Roof Consultant’s Institute.  I’m very familiar with them, and overjoyed with responses on your behalf.  They are Honorable, Certified, Experienced, and know what to do.

Before I go further, please let me list the complete position (with permission graciously provided by RCI):

 RCI, Inc.
1500 Sunday Drive, Suite 204
Raleigh, NC 27607-515
800-828-1902
 http://www.rci-online.org/

Tell them I sent you.

If your school district is using a Purchasing Cooperative, you are paying 40% too much.  I’ll refer you to the Ducker-Carlisle Report which can be found using the search feature in the upper left hand corner of this page.

Respect to Matt Dutton

Manufacturer responsible for G-P roof mistake facing legal action in Ohio

https://www.whig.com/20161121/manufacturer-responsible-for-griggsville-perry-roof-mistake-facing-legal-action-in-ohio-for-misleading-customers#

                                                     

By Matt Dutton Herald-Whig

Posted: Nov. 21, 2016 8:20 pm Updated: Nov. 22, 2016 8:14 am

GRIGGSVILLE, Ill. -- The same company responsible for the installation of the wrong roof at Griggsville-Perry Elementary School has an ongoing case against it in Ohio for selling subpar roofing material.

Assistant Ohio Attorney General Jerry Kasai confirmed a case has been opened against Tremco, a Cleveland-based roofing manufacturer. The joint complaint was filed by the Waverly (Ohio) School District Board of Education, Ohio School Facilities Commission and the state of Ohio. The complaint stems from a 2002 contract between Waverly School District and Tremco and various other construction companies.

"Tremco by and through its employees, agents and representatives conceived and executed a scheme to substitute sub-standard roofing materials in the roofing system designed and installed in the Waverly Project," the complaint against Tremco said. "Such scheme included ... the use of inspectors who were not truly independent and failed to report the use of sub-standard materials that failed to meet the Project's specifications."

The result, according to the complaint, was a defective roof that was not watertight. The complaint also expands upon the scheme by noting sales representative Kevin Kobbeman "intentionally hid the fact from the Plaintiffs that the material Defendent Tremco was supplying to the project was not what was contained within the Contract Specifications."

The lower-grade roof also took the school out of the required building code, as it was not rated high enough on fire resistance and wind uplift.

In hiring an inspector to survey the completed project, the complaint said, Tremco "utilized the services of employees of its wholly owned subsidiary, Weatherproofing Technologies Inc. to perform the required independent inspections. ... Such inspectors of Tremco failed to report the deficiencies."

For the Waverly School District case, the complaint said the financial impact was approximately an additional $3 million above original estimates.

In 2013, Tremco settled a similar lawsuit for almost $61 million. A press release from the Department of Justice regarding the lawsuit said, "Tremco allegedly improperly marketed generic products as a superior line of the same product and used a defective adhesive formula in its roofing systems." That case was brought to light by a former Tremco vice president who became a whistleblower.

The issue in Ohio, Griggsville-Perry Superintendent Janet Gladu said, revolved around the misrepresentation of inferior materials as meeting school code. The roof installed at Griggsville-Perry was a different roof with a shorter warranty than was ordered by the school.

"It's two different issues, same manufacturer," Gladu said.

The project has cost the district $101,391. Henson-Robinson President Dan Hoselton told The Herald-Whig's news-gathering partners at WGEM that the company plans on replacing the incorrect roofing product with no additional cost to the district and tax payers.

Gladu had previously told The Herald-Whig she hopes the replacement will be completed before winter weather sets in.

"Last time it took three weeks, but it should go faster this time. It should be about two weeks if we don't run into any rain," Gladu said. "I'm ready for it to be done. But we are making it correct."

Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an enforcement action against Tremco for failing to "timely disclose a loss contingency, or record accrual for, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice." The action claims Tremco failed to record a loss following the Department of Justice's 2011 investigation and the subsequent settlement in 2013.

This is happening across the country every single day, and school maintenance budgets destroyed as a result.  Schools get plenty of money, but have too many people siphoning it off on ridiculous procurement "Influence', and "ignorance".

NOBODY in the Private sector uses Tremco, for a number of reasons.  Type "Tremco" in the search box, and prepare yourself to be stunned.  

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Robert R. Solomon

Public Procurement Analyst

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