"you just weren't hungry enough" ;)

[LarryFine]

Masterinbama ?the cheese dip I get at the 7-11.? That?s too expensive try Price Right or by in bulk at Sam?s Club.

He didn't say he pays for it.

 

[petersonra]

another job i bid w/ a GC was a small municipal renovation job. i just got a chance to talk to him in depth about the other bids. 7 GC's bid the job; 5 reputable companies were within $1k of each other (yes one-thousand dollars) @ $250k, the low bid was an unknown $189k. the high bid was . . . . . .$1.8M < (yes, 1.8 million; not sure what that guy saw on the print). Time to complete was 4 wks. Low bidder has been on it for 10 weeks now and appears half-way through.

Place I used to work had that happen now and then. Sometimes we were the crazy high bid. A lot of municipalities and utilities would take you off the approved bidders list if you did not bid when you were asked to.

And some times the bid was sort of fixed to go to a certain bidder. One thing they would do was have that bidder write the spec, and then not give anywhere near enough time for a proper bid. Of course the bidder that wrote the spec had a slight advantage.

 

[GilbeSpark]

I think he's referring on how much it costs to fully wrap a work van. It's about $5k.

 

[Greg Swartz]

Place I used to work had that happen now and then. Sometimes we were the crazy high bid. A lot of municipalities and utilities would take you off the approved bidders list if you did not bid when you were asked to.

And some times the bid was sort of fixed to go to a certain bidder. One thing they would do was have that bidder write the spec, and then not give anywhere near enough time for a proper bid. Of course the bidder that wrote the spec had a slight advantage.

I've been getting ITBs quite regularly that are due within 24 hours of me receiving the e-mail.

I'm not bidding a $250k job in that time... even if I had the time!