> Lowest bidder? No one loses their job for someone dying? Government is not as bad as you think. It's worse. Lowest bidder really causes a lot of problems.

> Lowest bidder? No one loses their job for someone dying? Government is not as bad as you think. It's worse. Lowest bidder really causes a lot of problems. My company recently bid for a contract for an EU agency. We were not chosen, because the winning bid offered senior staff at a rate of 0.1 euro per hour. The bloody idiots at Government procurement calculated the average as (senior+junior)/2 and awarded the contract to these crooks with the flawed bid as their average was the lowest. It's not unreasonable to assume they will debit enough extra junior hours to offset the senior time. I am not even allowed to tell media about this, by contract. I don't think it's a rare event. Just my €0.02.