26th May 2011, 02:09 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:How did your specification that you tendered for come about. At which point in the planning cycle?
Post-determination, as part of a condition on planning consent. The curator had asked for a condition to be attached, and prepared a specification for the work. This was passed to the developer by the planner, who then sent it out to various companies asking for a price to undertake the initial evaluation, obviously with the usual caveats about further costs should significant archaeology be found that would require a further phase of mitigation. The various companies invited to tender submitted bids to the developer, who presumably selected someone based on cost.
I don't know whether this supports your argument or mine, but you did ask!
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum