THE CONTRACT SYSTEM.
It has become a rule amongst local bodies (says the Lyttelton Times) to accept the lowest tender for any contract, but the rule has been departed from in a few instances in South Canterbury lately. The Board of Education declined to accept a tender for a small work, the amount being so far below the architect's estimate that the Board believed the tenderer must have made a mistake, of which it would not take advantage. And this week the Timnru Borough Council put aside the lowest tender for building a cottage, and accepted one £7 higher, on the ground that the work could not pay at the lower price, and the next tender was nearer a fair price.
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Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4649, 1 February 1894, Page 2
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121THE CONTRACT SYSTEM. Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4649, 1 February 1894, Page 2
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