20th February 2008, 03:35 PM
Posted by Paul Belford:
Well, I work for an entirely commercial firm that regards staff training as crucual to its commercial success, and spends very large sums of money on it. Ultimately, archaeology is a skill-based activity. In the long term, a company that invests in training will both develop a more skilled workforce and be more likely to retain their best staff.
Price is definitely not all. My company also procures substantial quantities of archaeological work from units. We don't base our tender assessment purely on price, but on a combination of price and quality. On one recent occasion, we had a tender much cheaper than any other, but that did not give us the confidence that they could deliver to the required quality. We did not appoint that tenderer until we had talked through our worries with them, leading to a substantial increase in the resources they proposed to put in (and therefore their price, although they were still cheapest).
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Quote:quote:Without ANY regulation of the free market it is very difficult to pay for training...
... since we are usually in the position of offering a service that no-one actually wants, price is all.
Well, I work for an entirely commercial firm that regards staff training as crucual to its commercial success, and spends very large sums of money on it. Ultimately, archaeology is a skill-based activity. In the long term, a company that invests in training will both develop a more skilled workforce and be more likely to retain their best staff.
Price is definitely not all. My company also procures substantial quantities of archaeological work from units. We don't base our tender assessment purely on price, but on a combination of price and quality. On one recent occasion, we had a tender much cheaper than any other, but that did not give us the confidence that they could deliver to the required quality. We did not appoint that tenderer until we had talked through our worries with them, leading to a substantial increase in the resources they proposed to put in (and therefore their price, although they were still cheapest).
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished