BREUER REVIEW CONTRACTS ALLOCATED CONTRARY TO COMMON SENSE - TYPICAL FOR NEO

This is what’s wrong with how Cleveland and the County run their “business”. 

“The architectural team of Kohn Pederson Fox of New York and Cleveland-based Robert P. Madison International recommended tearing the Breuer building down and will design the new building.”  (got this quote from starting at FreshBrewed [1] and then going to Jay Miller from Crain’s Cleveland [2] who pulled from Cleveland vs The World [3].)

How can Robert P. Madison be impartial when their company's bread is soon to be buttered with the money from the contract to design a new building?  There should be separate contracts issued for 1. Evaluating the feasibility of maintaining the present structure, and then when that issue is decided, 2. a separate contract to either design the rehab of the existing building or the design of a new building.  

The entire process to date should get thrown out.  (But go ahead with the Asbo removal)

I will bet a dollar to a donut that the amount of money Madison will receive from designing a new building is a considerably larger amount that Madison would receive from a renovation.  Who has these numbers?

Here is what you MUST RECOGNIZE : NO CONTRACTOR WANTS THE LOW BID!   Every contractor wants the  HIGHEST BID.  Only the public benefits from the low bid.  But 99.9 % of the time the public doesn’t attend the hearings and  relies instead on their public representatives to look after the publics’ financial interests.  That doesn’t work, because the public representative also want more money flowing through their departments – money brings power and expanded authority and more staff.