28th November 2008, 04:23 PM
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We had a good thing going there! Why all the talk of queen's speeches and office managers?
I'm interested by curator kid's comment about increasing the number of planning conditions during a recession- I assumed there would be pressure to do the opposite. Given the fall in the number of planning applications submitted, will curators' and planning officers' jobs also be under threat, or does it not work that way in local govt?
As for competitive tendering, it's a nice idea but the quality of tender documents you see from clients is extremely variable- sometimes it's really obvious they have cut and pasted from a previous document without any understanding of the project or the role of an archaeologist within it. Also, most companies and organisations will have a ceiling, above which formal tendering is required. Below that amount then managers just have to receive 3 quotes normally. There's certainly plenty of opportunity for developers to play one bidder off against another in order to lower their costs in these circumstances.
We had a good thing going there! Why all the talk of queen's speeches and office managers?
I'm interested by curator kid's comment about increasing the number of planning conditions during a recession- I assumed there would be pressure to do the opposite. Given the fall in the number of planning applications submitted, will curators' and planning officers' jobs also be under threat, or does it not work that way in local govt?
As for competitive tendering, it's a nice idea but the quality of tender documents you see from clients is extremely variable- sometimes it's really obvious they have cut and pasted from a previous document without any understanding of the project or the role of an archaeologist within it. Also, most companies and organisations will have a ceiling, above which formal tendering is required. Below that amount then managers just have to receive 3 quotes normally. There's certainly plenty of opportunity for developers to play one bidder off against another in order to lower their costs in these circumstances.