3rd August 2009, 10:45 AM
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....so are we going to have a system of one man units doing local work and a few big companies tendering for everything else?
I have feared for a while that the current situation will be a little like a nuclear war - the only survivors being those with very deep and well-defended bunkers (i.e. the big units with large infrastructure projects that are not going to stop) and cockroaches(those willing to do any tiny little piece of work for the lowest possible price they can survive on). Anyone caught in the middle is a bit screwed. To use the modern jargon, the manner in which archaeological tendering is typically conducted is unsustainable.