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Originally Posted by rocketphish
We know that there is a better way to do this. In 1972, the Brooks Act was implemented in the United States. For 45 years, it has been illegal to use price in scoring RFPs in all federal government procurement, across 49 of 50 U.S. states and hundreds of municipalities. The track record for quality in procurement is well known, and well documented.
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Treasury Board has made a recent change to some big RFPs, where the scoring is now 90% technical and 10% price. The new problem is that this has turned procurement upside down, with the traditional perennial winners on price being now unable to compete with superior technical solutions.
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/policy-and-guidelines/supply-manual/section/5
And to complicate matters, contract bidders that bring a lot to the table are in short supply, because bidders never had to compete on technical aspects before. Add to that a huge backlog of work, it means there aren't enough good firms that can actually deliver the goods. In time, this will improve, but it's a 180 degree turn on the lowest-price-wins mentality and could take years that we don't have.
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