No-Bid is No Good
The bidding process for the proposed police substation in University Place may or may not have been fair. But the fact is, a whole bunch of people perceive the process to have been unfair. Urban Development Manager Wynn Hjermstad said there is no problem because “the project has been handled the same way all other redevelopment projects have been” handled. That’s hardly a sufficient explanation; the mere fact that something has always been done a certain way does not make that way correct.
Governments—local, state, and national—seem to continuously get themselves in trouble over insufficient contract bidding competitions. Wouldn’t a wide-open, competitive bidding process better serve the interests of the people than a closed or semi-closed process?
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