26th May 2011, 12:54 PM
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[SIZE=3]so PPS5 has no relevance to me, but I think that tendering for work is probably a reality of everyday life.
[/SIZE]Sorry I didn?t realise that you were north of the boarder -why is scottish heritage ?supporting? this whatever it is consultation using one consultant.
I was trying to get the consultant position in the new pps5 world which presumably is to prepare the specification for the developer to find an archaeologists to provide information to inform the planning application. How did your specification that you tendered for come about. At which point in the planning cycle? Have you got any guesses sith.
Currently I am involved in a tendering thing being run by an architect with a brief set by a curator who has basically written that the work should be carried out according to pps5?it is post determination and they still want predetermination information and that any quote that I put in has to cover evaluation all the way through to any eventuality and without any payment for background research or an...evaluation. This quote requires the full implications for the development timetable. its a farce.
As for the conspiracy thing you have to understand that we work in an environment where you have to be a class 2 exempt charity and run dubious compertions so that you can give bottles of champagne to something called eh. Theres only about 2000 archaeologists out there but it is remarkable how they can hide behind the ifa, algao, eh sh and all the rest of the letters of the alphabet. I think that somewhere in the gumpth around the purpose of this consultation I read the purpose was to make it transparent. And all I have learnt so far is that it is no more transparant to you as it is to me but you dont think interms of conspiracies.
Reason: your past is my past