STRUDWICK.FAMILY wrote: > Quick look at the site suggest that with just over a week to go less > than half of the moorings have attracted any tenders at all. A few have > two or three of course we cant tell how many of the tenders are > acceptable at this stage
Out of curiosity I was looking at the site the other day. This concept of acceptable tenders bothers me. BW say they have set a cut-off below which it is "uneconomic" to offer the mooring and will not publish figures that they have refused to accept. Surely this seriously undermines the validity of the trial. I would suggest that the cut-off for an genuinely uneconomic mooring is the administrative cost of offering it. How can it be any more than this? If 5 people offer say between £600 and £800 for a mooring but BW have set the cut-off at £1000, we will never find out what "the market" considers to be the correct price. It is still economic to offer the mooring though... I notice that the site shows the number of people who have looked at each page, presumably implying that they are interested in tendering. What's the bet that BW will produce these stats as indicating the level of support for the concept? Sounds like manipulating the market to me unless BW are 100% transparent about every bid and all the statistical information they have at the end of the process. Rant over. Steve NB Bream
