Whilst the potential for additional funding was welcomed, we heard that hard-pressed Council departments found the bidding process often time-consuming and bureaucratic, and potentially demoralising should it end in failure.ixAberdeenshire Council, written submission; COSLA, written submission; West Dunbartonshire Council, written submission; Official Report, NZET Committee, 20 Sept 2022, col 40 (COSLA) As challenge funding is for discrete and sometimes quite narrowly drawn policy outcomes, we also also heard views that it does not encourage a place-based approach to project management.xSustrans, written submission This is unless the bidder is able to "join the dots" with multiple successful bid that can enable concurrent projects to be linked up, to multiply the benefit.xiCity of Edinburgh Council, written submission We also note views that the process does not produce equitable outcomes, in that some Councils appear to be better able to work the system.xiiStephen Kerr MSP...