26th October 2011, 08:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 26th October 2011, 08:51 PM by Dinosaur.)
Speaking as a SPO employed for the last 21 years (on and off) by a non-RAO, we regularly win work on grounds of quality over both ROs and non-ROs (including for EH, Environment Agency and similar 'non-commercial' organisations), so its not obvious where the 'quality' bit of the RO status comes in.....oh, and yes, we do follow IFA standards but mainly coincidentally since all that IFA has done really is bother to write down what was pretty much consensually common best practice anyway, and provides a handy short-hand for contractors and curators