I want to make it very clear this is not a design competition similar to what was run before, where anybody could submit a design and draw it out on napkins. |
I was never really comfortable with the process. |
It's not going to delay the project. We think this decision is so important that we (must) get it right. |
So they're going to put forth their best effort to win this competition. |
The work that has been done so far is not considered to be wasted work, because that work will go into the information that's provided to the competing firms. |
These decisions have to be made before you can do a design competition. We can't run a design competition saying we don't know if it's going to be replacement or companion. |
We think that there were some flaws in the process before, and this is an effort to improve it. Why continue on a path that we feel isn't going to give us the best result? |