army corps of engineers context of the times that this happened this is in a new theater of war in afghanistan in two thousand and four just as the insurgency was beginning so i explained that because not only did the corps itself inspection primarily because or as a site resident to see how many stories there are does not require a lot of input and you were about to and since you got the contract it's not like this was a war zone and you weren't going to go there contract was going to require you let's say they did not consciously request an access to scientists that doesn't take away from the requirements necessary to prove them so they can be they were the government's independent estimate was sixteen green a sixteen million in change and twelve for the options of total of twenty nine million dollars my client bid was ten million compared to the government of seventeen million and six million for the option for a total of sixteen million nine so what were forty three percent below the i g we are twenty eight percent low the next low is bitter which the government mistakenly thought was a contract to locate in the united states whereas in reality was one block away from my client i want to go to the to me what seems to be the core issue of what that would rely on yes i want instances says we didn't do the site that i said having said that we still fit within the confines of mistaken bid and the problem is that what is a judgment or it seems you think this is a mistake and showed to me a mistake in judgment is the contract in the government looks at a ten story building and contractor says i think i can do that for eight million dollars did look at two sets of information you sketching sketches that we're talking about were also referred to it drawings and also looked in the written specifications that in certain instances said well the number x has three company he writes a letter to the contracting officer and says we like to visit the date is that a formal schedule that's that's made i don't know your honor i don't know the answer to that i   a bitter could understand the number of floors on each building and the nature of the buildings and as the court noted never asked to see those drawings despite them being the ritual performance government estimate they in their report use the concept of one three eight at the specifications and sketches either showed a building that was one story three stories or eight involving the mistake doctrine that's at issue here where the mistake was a and the decision not to seek information that was there for the seeking was he thought they had a crane in there in the tory think they could modify that would carry the load that was necessary that was and the argument there was there it's based on fair to read the whole  recognize that the requirements there is that right yes the lower capacity if with your unit could do it we never thought we could build a five story building for the price we submitted i'm talking about earlier next door for an eight day army suddenly had absolutely no problems and had photographs and that the it had a mandatory site is it in there so this this era that occurred was not one sided the government