tyha
Senior Member
- Location
- central nc
we are doing a little 2 story retail shell for this GC we just started quoting work for. They sent us a invite a few weeks back for a bank they were pricing. we have priced about 7 and done 3 of the exact bank so we worked it up for them and sent it out. I called maybe a week later to see where we ended up and they said we were second by a few hundred bucks. right then I thought something was strange because very rarely are you a few hundred bucks off of a $160,000 bid. I didn't think much more about until I was at a pre bid meeting for a school and started talking with an old estimating buddy I used to work with about this new gc. he said they have been doing work for them for years and I asked him about the bank and he said they called them up the day after the freaking thing bid and said they had a budget number for a bank would they look at it. low and behold the budget number was my number. the number they used to land the job with and freaking shopped me out. i didnt tell my friend about it I just told him we priced it. I could not beleive they did it but then again. yes i can