I'm obsessed

[patdog]

The law for most large procurements is lowest and best bid. You have to bid it, but you don't have to take the lowest bid as long as you have a reason that another bid is better. For professional services, you can just hire whoever you want without taking bids or proposals, although often governments will take proposals even though they're not required to. And honestly, there's no good reason they shouldn't be required to take proposals and evaluate them.

 

[FirstPoetsThenSunDoggy]

The law for most large procurements is lowest and best bid. You have to bid it, but you don't have to take the lowest bid as long as you have a reason that another bid is better. For professional services, you can just hire whoever you want without taking bids or proposals, although often governments will take proposals even though they're not required to. And honestly, there's no good reason they shouldn't be required to take proposals and evaluate them.

Exactly. The professional services loophole needs to be closed.

 

[mstateglfr]

Just one quick look at that site and the first five posts are anti GOP. That whole site exists just to spew liberal propaganda & hate, but that's probably your thing.

Someone admits they don't know what the website tells us, and you fire back that the poster much agree with what you disagree with?
You seem to work off emotion when it comes to political views. That is a shame.

 

[Hammer Down]

Is it too much to ask for someone to use facts? People only get mad when they cannot prove their argument with logic. It is unfortunate that in politics, people are so indoctrinated and invested in their 'beliefs' that they cannot see logic another person presents them with. My political viewpoint is ever-changing, but due to facts/numbers it always stays on the right side of the line.

Another tactic when someone is defeated is to start talking about "both" sides like you did in an earlier post in this thread. No offense or anything, just responding with my own opinion.

 

[Hammer Down]

A little background about my views...17 both sides of the fence. I have nothing for anyone.

Such a cop out. Why are Republicans so scared to voice their opinions? You know damn well you relate to one side better than the other.

 

[ShrubDog]

Look fella you are calling me a Republican and have no idea who I am. You have no idea of my affiliations and your trying to say I am tied to a group. You are assuming and your way off base. Maybe you need to stick to opinions only and stop assuming things. That will get you into a mess.

Such a cop out. Why are Republicans so scared to voice their opinions? You know damn well you relate to one side better than the other.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Don't

get upset. It's just goat. He's and dubmass.

 

[ronpolk]

You can't really bid out professional work. There can be pretty significant differences in quality of work even within firms, much less across them. Not bidding them out means they get handed out on the basis of relationships, which can be pretty bad too. But bidding them out just ensures you get the most desperate bidder, and there's no spec sheet to hold them too.

You can bid out legal work. I didn't say hire joe blow just cause he's the lowest bidder. But if the butler snow knows they have no competition they can charge what they want. Jones Walker, Watkins eager, brunini can all do what butler snow can do. Bid it out to competent companies. What this article is pointing out is that butler snow is raking in these contracts on what looks like the promise to hire someone

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

^^^peace-loving hippie liberal idiot