28th October 2011, 05:19 PM
diggingthedirt Wrote:The point is that curators are already influencing who gets to work in ‘their’ patch by advising applicants of contractors who have undertaken similar work.
Well they shouldn't be. Unless the Council is the developer, in which case it could be considered in-house advice, curators absolutely shouldn't be saying to developers that they should use a particular contractor over someone else, and I'd consider that doing so would amount to an anti-competitive practice. If I heard that a curator had been directing developers that they should use another company rather than putting work out to tender, I'd consider it a serious cause for complaint.
To be fair, however, that's not how I read tmsarch's comment - I took it more as an indication that she or he would personally consider previous work as an indication of future competence, rather than being that they'd recommend that to a developer that they should use a specific contractor.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum