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Qualifications Based Selection
NYSQBS Council
14 N. Marvine Ave.
Auburn, NY 13021
Sponsors
ACECNY NYSSPE AIA APWA AWWA NYSCLA NYSAPLS
Contact the NYSQBS Council
Bruce Clifford, Facilitator
QBS Council of NYS
14 Marvine Avenue
Auburn, NY13021-
(315) 252-8214 		John Przepiora, Facilitator
QBS Council of NYS
134 Durston Avenue
Syracuse, NY13203-
(315) 479-9111
Quotables
... there is a tendency to unrealistically reduce the price when price is known to be the primary basis for the contract award …
U.S. House of Representatives Report 98-621
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."
Just the Faqs
Q. What are the most important benefits of QBS?
A. It all comes down to technical quality - i.e., safety, functionality, maintainability and life-cycle costs - and long-term savings.