22nd September 2012, 10:16 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:a few years back a local-government operation won a small job (3 or 4 people trial trenching a carpark for a few days) with a tender which wouldn't even have hired a JCB for a day, and was about 1/10 of the other 2 tenders....errr....mysteriously nothing archaeological was found, apparently....only good thing was that they backfilled so incompetently that the carpark surface collapsed and they were forced to return and re-do it their own expense }Not an action soley to local govt units though, I'm sure we've all heard of or encountered other units doing this. Would/should curators be allowed to object to lower quotes? Maybe, but hten if they also have a local council unti then there is the potential for a conflict of interest.
Where there are 3 or 4 tenders for a job, curators should be able to query/object to any that are significantly lower than the rest? :face-thinks:
What they can/could do is hold the 'offending' unit to their WSI, and then its up to that unit to justify why its then cost their client so much more than they said. If the client then holds the unit to the price they agree, it becomes awfully expensive to do a stupidly low tender surely?