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Council questions consultant scoring method, expands landscape-architecture shortlist
Summary
Councilmembers expressed concern that cumulative scoring can be skewed by a single high score; after debate the council voted to expand the short list for a continuing landscape-architecture contract from five firms to seven.
Councilmembers debated the selection methodology for a continuing landscape-architecture contract during the Aug. 18 meeting, questioning whether cumulative numeric scoring can produce unfair outcomes when one reviewer’s outlier score skews averages.
Councilmember Fred Berson said he preferred that selection-panelists individually rank firms rather than submit numeric scores that are averaged, and asked why the cutoff…
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