Question

You and your design group are competing for a multidisciplinary concept project. Your firm is the lead group in the design professional consortium formed to compete for the project. Your consortium has been selected to be the first to enter fee negotiations with the project owner. During negotiations, the amount you have to cut from your fee to be awarded the contract will require dropping one of the consortium members whose staff has special capabilities not found in the staff of the remaining consortium members. Is your consortium response in the negotiations ethical

Answer 1

Answer: No, not if the owner is left with the impression that the consortium is still fully qualified to perform all the required tasks

Step-by-step explanation:

The purpose of a team is to work together, when the lead person is not involved the team may not be able to coordinate themselves to carry on with the task. Considering the project, dropping one of the consortium member with the best skill would be a turn off for the deal. For the team to do well, they need each other, especially the lead or most skillful, not including this in the deal is a loss already