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Everybody (except, apparently, Angela Brady) knows that public bodies and local authorities are required by law to procure their buildings via the OJEU system but that they usually already know who they want as their architect, and that this is the architect who always ends up getting the job.

And yet we keep on filling in PQQs and wasting our time. What we should be doing is boycotting the OJEU process until it is thoroughly reformed - as many architects have been calling for for years.

As President of the RIBA Angela Brady is in an excellent position to apply pressure in Brussels to get something done about this.