This describes a typical limited tender process using standard methods of price / quality measurement, with a pricing ratio set at 50%. It demonstrates that this scoring ratio will almost certainly result in the cheapest price winning the project, even with a very low quality score. The sample scores used to test this model is […]
It is the perennial tragedy for architects that the public’s impression of their profession is often constrained to cliché; abstract notions of black polo-neck wearing elites with eccentric glasses, inhabitants of glass and steel edifices overlooking the Thames, or otherwise palatial modernist retreats in isolated countryside. There can be few occupations where such a perceptive chasm exists between its portrayal in the mass media and the day-to-day reality experienced by the large majority of its members.