atw: Re: Market testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: "Hope Debbie" <hope_debbie@xxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 01:49:18 -0400
Ahhhhhh!!! <<<false-advertising>>> Canberra headhunters are good at
that too!!!
Looks like an interesting position - turns out to be purely a
'book-building' exercise. If you ask them - of course you get the "I am
so surprised - we would NEVER do that!"
Yeah right
Debbie
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Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 3:43 PM
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Subject: atw: Re: Market testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Sounds like what we would call in slightly different circumstances
'false advertising'--pretending something is being offered that doesn't
really exist. This is intended to trick Howard, Steve H, etc. into
donating an hour or so of their time to help the government find out
what the market rate might be.
Hmm, well, they're the government. It must be for the best.
Bob T said:
> Market testing was brought in to avoid the situation of a contract
> being rolled over, year after year after year to the same person.
>
> It tests if the rate is appropriate, and "confirms" (cough cough) that
the
> incumbent is still the best person for the job.
>
> I cannot think of a case where an incumbent has lost their job - or
rather,
> not had a contract renewed.
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