OK, I hear your point but its still a technicality that can be over come - how to shield the panel from the bidder and vice versa. Perhaps the decision on who's

OK, I hear your point but its still a technicality that can be over come - how to shield the panel from the bidder and vice versa. Perhaps the decision on who's in the panel is random form a large pool of professionals and decided on the day? Perhaps its like a Jury duty where the panel is removed from their environment for a day or two? Its a logistical technicality. The idea I think still stands - those budgets are a blatant misuse of public funds due to misdirection and misinformation, and at the scale of those budgets its disastrous in the state of the current economy.