Procurement, through a Request for Proposal (RFP), is how architects and engineers are hired to design Canada’s infrastructure. This includes exciting new museums and libraries but also the day-to-day infrastructure for offices, renovations, roof rehabilitation, barrier-free washroom upgrades, and thousands of regular projects.
But how architects and engineers are hired is increasingly challenged.
Click here to read a great article on the injustice embedded within the professional services RFP process by Toon Dreessen, President of Ottawa-based Architects DCA and Past-President of the Ontario Association of Architects.