"Hotel groups seem to want the design and engineering credentials that companies like Morgan create but then go to alternative suppliers with a remarkably similar spec.

We have just introduced a system where, in future, ACID members who pitch for contracts can send copies of their pitch free of charge to the ACID Design Data Bank. On the front of the pitch/tender documents they communicate that they are ACID members and have sent a copy to the ACID DDB. In this way we hope that this might be a subliminal or not so subliminal message that a 3rd party has also seen the response to pitch or tender!"