[juanbenae]

I worked in project admin for a public agency's engineering group and the RFP selection process was a joke. it really came down to the finance group's choice with the construction group's input not being considered because cost was the bottom line. we would be saddled with the same horrible design consultants again and again because they were the cheapest. their quality of work was not a consideration taken in to account.

we had a couple sayings, "garbage in garbage out", and "if you pay peanuts you get monkeys" where we in the construction group lived.