• cuppaconcrete
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    1 year ago

    This smells like corruption though, asking a bidder to raise their price to make the preferred bidder win the contract. I honestly can’t remember, were these shenanigans going on with the original Myki tender too?

    • bui@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      I can’t find a source but it was decided that the original Myki should be built as a custom solution at a greater expense and with a slower rollout even though there were already off-the-shelf solutions that were working around the world that would have been faster and cheaper to implement.

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      1 year ago

      Remember Transdev winning the bus contract on being cheap, then completely skimping on maintenance.

      A contracts price is going to be entirely dependant on its scope. The trouble though the scope can be manipulated to prefer a certain bidder.