23rd September 2012, 09:07 AM
Antipesto Wrote: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.
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?
Curators don't have anything to do with tenders or quotes - surely that is a matter between the unit and the developer? It should be up to the developer to highlight if a job has been under-quoted (ie, is ridiculously lower than the rest) as it should set alarm bells off that the unit hasn't understood the requirements of the job properly and it will cost them more in the long run if the unit doesn't do the work properly.