29th December 2012, 09:22 PM
Quote:Once IFA gains Chartered status, then there will be more solid grounds for using membership as a pre-qual, but at the moment it sounds shaky...What would the alternative be at the moment? There's not much point saying they can't use that criteria if there's nothing else to use instead. Remember that the local authority is trying to meet a legal obligation to have a measurable quality standard for all tender applicants. Unless anything more likely exists, then the IFA requirement might just be the best they can do.