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Re:Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) by KptMarchewa on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:37AM (#21627968)
It's not "lowest cost bid" but "lowest cost bid that meets all the requirements". The point is that requirements have to be well specified.
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Re:Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) by jacobush on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:32AM (#21628943)
It can be very adversarial very quickly. Whichever way you turn, the public servants need to be very competent, either to direct the project themselves or to specify it very well. There's no free lunch.
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Re:Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) by chopin on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:33AM (#21628404)
The problem is that Germany lacks knowledgeable people in public service.
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Re:Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) by ahaferburg on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:48PM (#21643536)
The underlying assumption is that Waterfall works, which is probably more problematic.
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