I don't see how this can be avoided, if we want the sort of high quality bids we saw for 2007. The only reason people pushed so hard for such great results was because they knew they were in competition and had a chance of losing. If we focus on minimizing the amount of wasted effort then we will end up minmizing the quality of the bids.
I don't see any reason to scrap the system which brought us the Turin and Tapei bids without any better alternative.
Birgitte SB
--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/09/06, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
But if you want another procedure, make one, and don't skip the procedure and just choose one.
Because next year
you will then have an even huger problem, as there
will be no bidding
candidates which are somehow experienced, and you
will have a lot of
cities bidding which don't have to be good.
I don't have to have a replacement to be able to notice that the current one is clearly damaging. Sending some of the Foundation's hardest-working volunteers on a futile task is utterly demotivating.
- d.
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