The City Quickly Advertises for Architectural Services--So It Can Select BIF as Project Architect for Millennium

The City's actions and emails and letters both before and after May 21, 2010, indicate that the City was working with and considered Brewer, Ingram & Fuller as the project architect or certainly as the "project architect to-be."

But TDOT's email of 6/21/10 changed all that. TDOT said that the City at least had to go through the "motions" of letting other firms submit proposals before the City officially selected BIF as the "firm of choice."

Morgan scrambled to run an ad in the paper requesting Letters of Interest from architectural firms so the City could select BIF but present the appearance of considering other firms. 

Here is the newspaper ad that ran on July 11, 2010, requesting that all architectural proposals be submitted to the City by July 19, 2010 (eight days later).

Who will be selected is pre-determined. What a shame and a sham to waste the time of other firms that may have thought this was an open process.

The evaluations--by the City--are next