Re: Re: Anti-Competitive ‘Homearchitect.ie’ Carries RIAI Logo

@reddy wrote:

This kind of cooperation often occurs in public service tendering where small practices create a group to tender for a job on the basis that on their own they cannot compete by reasons of minimum turnover/staff levels/insurance criteria.

I think fair play to them if it works.

A group of small practices cooperating to tender for A job is of course providing A firm quote for one job. The group are still openly competing against everyone else.

This ‘network of architects’, which is apparently backed by the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland, demands the same fixed price every time. The RIAI backing and resulting level of publicity negatively affects the prospects of other small RIAI practitioners who compete fairly for such work.

Interesting that Greg Tisdall is a long term member of RIAI council…
Makes it difficult to comprehend how he was not aware of the Competition Act given the work undertaken by the Competition Authority vis-a-vis fee scales etc.