The next day--Todd Morgan, Alan Hartman, and Tracy Stroud with Rich DesGrosseilliers of LAMTPO--Lakeway Area Metropolitan Transportation and Planning Organization-- gave BIF the highest total score of the three firms submitting letters of interest.
The scoring sheet is below. Look closely at the sheet--certain words in the description of the criteria in b, c, and g are underlined, and it is in each of these criteria (b, c, and g) that Brewer, Ingram & Fuller had a higher score than the 2nd ranked firm (Barge, Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon).
Maybe the person who prepared the sheet just happened to underline these words in three criteria and maybe these three areas just happened to be the areas where BIF would outscore the second-ranked BWSC.
BIF is a very qualified architectural firm. But in the Millennium mess, BIF ended up with conflicts of interest that affected its actions and that critically impaired the independence of its handling of the project.
BIF ended up trying to serve two masters--(1) the City with which it had a contract for direct payment of BIF invoices and (2) Millennium Square Partners who were ultimately responsible for paying BIF invoices through contractual reimbursement payments to the City for all BIF invoices.
Evaluator Todd Morgan had been working with BIF on Millennium for months before Morgan helped officially evaluate and "select" BIF as project architect. Morgan had even referred to BIF as the "project architect" in letters written months before BIF's selection on 7/20/13.
Evaluator Rich DesGrosseilliers had written a letter to TDOT's Neil Hansen in February 2010 with BIF scheduled to perform design work such as submission of a project schedule, preliminary plans, environmental documents, and document revisions---DesGrosseilliers' letter with BIF performing specific design work was written five months before BIF was "selected" as project architect.
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