Jim,
In
general, most corporate and municipal entities find this a conflict of
interest; the relationship developed as the consultant gives unfair
advantage.. However, if the bid is truly apples to apples with low bid
being the deciding factor, following a review and selection of bidders through
an RFQ, I do not see why not. In fact, in the several cases like that, I
have seen, the consultant (knows too much) and has not been the low
bidder. The process becomes more convoluted when you have consultants
reviewing projects and getting advice from contractors (as used to always be
the case, as the consultants only expertise was in writing and documenting,
not the skilled trade required). In this case the specialty contractor
is allowed to bid, but the consultant and owner chose – what is fair about
that? I think a better approach is a RFQ to select a
conservator/consultant/contractor team, and then negotiate the costs based on
man hours, materials, mark-up and profit and overhead. We
on the consultant end prefer to be retained by the Owner since we
(theoretically) will be representing the owner (in an
always-fair-and-judicious manner, of course) in his actions relative to
the contractor, and can't do that if we're in any way dependent on the
contractor. There's a reason most people don't walk on their
hands down the middle of the street, and there are usually problems
when they do.
Best,
Equally bestest,
Leland
Ralph
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I will relate
later what my experience has been with the St. Pats bidding, not withstanding
Ralph’s admonition.
A query – how many consultants, in the general
construction business, are allowed to bid on the job they are the official
consultant of?
Suffice to say that almost every one on my team has dropped
out of the project because Art Femenalla, the official (there are some other
un-official) consultant, is being allowed to bid the St. Patrick’s job. The
other one on the team just up and quit the company he was in charge
of.
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Re: [BP] Stained
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The
Arch got conflicting recommendations from 2
"consultants"
Like
w/ economic pundits?
What amazes me is how often "consultants" are more
shtick than substance.
What also amazes me is how humans groupthink
through conflicting information and that the conclusions can usually be tied
not to technological results but to simple
vices.
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