{"659504":{"#nid":"659504","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Closer Look at QBS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGordon Kingsley, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, was a guest on the American Council on Engineering Companies\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;(ACEC) podcast, \u003Cem\u003EEngineering Influence\u003C\/em\u003E. There, he discussed a study he helped produce for the ACEC Research Institute on qualification-based selections.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is an area where there\u0026#39;s been so much experimentation by governments across the United States, trying to figure out what\u0026#39;s the right balance in terms of their contracting practices....\u0026nbsp;In that process, though, there\u0026#39;s been this commitment by the Brooks Act to qualification-based contracting. That\u0026#39;s a long-standing commitment in the United States, and it\u0026#39;s been an important one because it injects into our procurement process a focus on quality and making sure that those levels of expertise are brought into the decision-making by public sector actors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-07-20 18:19:27","changed_gmt":"2022-07-20 18:26:19","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/share\/pb-x56sg-1278ed2","dateline":{"date":"2022-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"659509":{"id":"659509","type":"image","title":"Gordon Kingsley","body":null,"created":"1658341563","gmt_created":"2022-07-20 18:26:03","changed":"1658341563","gmt_changed":"2022-07-20 18:26:03","alt":"Gordon Kingsley sitting at a desk.","file":{"fid":"249969","name":"150618AR027.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/150618AR027.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/150618AR027.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32658,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/150618AR027.jpg?itok=WZM6yF3W"}}},"media_ids":["659509"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}