Qualifications Based Selection
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NYSQBS Council
14 N. Marvine Ave. Auburn, NY 13021 |
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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
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Just the Faqs
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What are the most important benefits of QBS?
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It all comes down to technical quality - i.e., safety, functionality, maintainability and life-cycle costs - and long-term savings.
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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." |