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Procurement rules are important, but so much work in any city is done sole-sourced. A project of this scope probably could have gone out to a competitive bid, but to do so for every project and activity would grind things to a halt. I don't find it that troubling when projects are sole-sourced to firms that are clearly known to be the best on the planet, and Calatrava is one of the world's master bridge designers. The real issue is when contracts are sole-sourced to people that are politically connected to politicians or bureaucrats. That clearly isn't the case here.

I personally am a supporter of the bridge project, but think its implementation, particularly communication of its purpose was fumbled. Its purpose, or even name was not explained or grounded in any sort of larger initiative that it was tied to (Landscape of memory project, or the Centre City Plan).