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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #176
Question
“Reverse Auctioning” is a bidding technique used by the Pennsylvania Department of General Services for a project several years ago. Can you describe how it works?
Answer
In this case, the Pennsylvania Department of General Services prequalified nine firms and installed secure software for each. The firms placed bids over the Internet at one-minute increments. Bidding started at $3.8 million. After 170 different bids over 90 minutes of bidding, the final low bid was at $2.6 million.
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2004, Dave Guadagni.
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Furniture auction.
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