10th February 2009, 03:46 PM
Some useful and interesting points - the issue of resourcing different sizes of project is very important, and does make me wonder why the local curators allow some people to carry out some jobs, but it is difficult to stop them I suppose.
In response to 'welcome to the Free Market Economy' - do we really want archaeological tendering to be run in a 'Confused.com' or similar price comparison basis, as that is what is likely to happen. I certainly have seen requests for costs emailed to everyone on the list (by people who don't how to use the blind cc button on Outlook, or whatever it is called), which is always going to result in the lowest price winning. It will certainly leave costs open to be pushed down even further by unscrumpulous developers. I sometimes get the slight feeling that curators are almost trying to save the developers money at any cost and perhaps in doing so save themselves a lot of hassle :face-stir:
In response to 'welcome to the Free Market Economy' - do we really want archaeological tendering to be run in a 'Confused.com' or similar price comparison basis, as that is what is likely to happen. I certainly have seen requests for costs emailed to everyone on the list (by people who don't how to use the blind cc button on Outlook, or whatever it is called), which is always going to result in the lowest price winning. It will certainly leave costs open to be pushed down even further by unscrumpulous developers. I sometimes get the slight feeling that curators are almost trying to save the developers money at any cost and perhaps in doing so save themselves a lot of hassle :face-stir: