Qualifications Based Selection
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NYSQBS Council
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Real World
In July of 1981, two elevated walkways over the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a party, killing 111 people and injuring 188 others. The engineering services on this structure had been awarded on the basis of low bid, and the design professional services were limited by contract …
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Quotables
It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything becvause the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Just the Faqs
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Isn't there the risk of favoritism or impropriety with QBS?
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Nationwide, there is no existing literature documenting cases of impropriety due to QBS. For many years in New York City, when the Department of Environmental Protection awarded all projects by QBS, there were no allegations or instances of impropriety in the selection process. In contrast, in the years when Maryland used a cost-based system similar to New York City's, scores of legal actions were brought against the state based on imprecise scope of work and bid rigging.
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