Qualifications Based Selection
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NYSQBS Council
14 N. Marvine Ave. Auburn, NY 13021 |
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Sponsors
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Contact the NYSQBS Council
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Quotables
… use of "low bid" procedure has frequently resulted in insufficient funds allocated to a project to adequately verify the accuracy of design and to thoroughly check plans before construction …
U.S. House of Representatives Report 98-621
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Real World
Memo from Kaye Henderson, Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation from 1987-1990.
"As Secretary, I inherited a system of selecting design professionals on the basis of competitive bidding. The results were uniformly negative. Price-based selections for design services don’t work. It didn’t work for the public, the agency administrators, contract managers or even office holders." |
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Just the Faqs
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How widespread is the use of QBS?
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QBS is the preferred procurement process throughout the U.S., used successfully by the federal government, 42 states - including New York State - and hundreds of municipalities.
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