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EC, Westchester, New York NEC: 2014
- Location
- Hawthorne, New York NEC: 2014
- Occupation
- EC
More hypothetical than anything but I was talking to a GC about this recently. Say as an EC you have a relationship with a certain GC. By that I mean they always have work and always ask you to give them a number for a job they are bidding. Most times you get the work.
Now, another GC calls you who is also bidding on the same job as the GC you know. He asks if you are bidding on that job and if so what your numbers are. You've never worked with this GC before, got your number out of the Blue Book.
Do you decline, give him the same number as the GC you work with or give him a higher number? Also keeping in mind that winning bidders doing public work have to say who their MEPs are and the numbers. So you risk POing the GC you have a relationship with if the other contractor should win.
Do GCs ask you to do the takeoffs and estimating for the jobs they bid or do they have their own estimators and come to you after they have won a bid?
-Hal
Now, another GC calls you who is also bidding on the same job as the GC you know. He asks if you are bidding on that job and if so what your numbers are. You've never worked with this GC before, got your number out of the Blue Book.
Do you decline, give him the same number as the GC you work with or give him a higher number? Also keeping in mind that winning bidders doing public work have to say who their MEPs are and the numbers. So you risk POing the GC you have a relationship with if the other contractor should win.
Do GCs ask you to do the takeoffs and estimating for the jobs they bid or do they have their own estimators and come to you after they have won a bid?
-Hal