Million to prepare their designs and proposals that were judged on budget, highest value, schedule, design and public inconvenience. closed the post proclaiming that the time for design-build on public projects has come. Today I read an ENR article about a $1.1 Billion Utah highway and bridge project that illustrated one of the problems with public design-build: sore losers and their ability to litigate. The Utah DOT made a request for proposal for upgrading a 24 mile highway section near Provo. The design-build finalists were each paid $1.5 MORE >>

The bidder responded to an open call for bids from the international elance.com service, which usually attracts the best prices from far-away offshore countries, but in this case, is in the US, in the same eastern time zone as our organization.  If you are a general contractor or sub-trade bidding work, all you are doing is losing your shirt if your clients will take the low bid on one job and then say “next&#.  RFP/bidding/tenders SalesI’m trying a new service.  Can you apply these approaches in your own marketing? MORE >>

Home » Featured The Beauty of Public RFPs… And Of Course The Ugly Written By: John Poole on March 3, 2010 245 Comments Over the past six months, I have had the wonderful privilege (ahem) of bidding about 15 public Requests for Proposals.  However, in the world of public bidding, while a municipality may not want to take a chance on an unproven no-name either, the law simply states – they have to. So if a town wants to disqualify a low bid, they better have darn good reason to do it, or some villagers may get quite angry.  They typically under bid jobs. MORE >>

Were all the tasks – windshield time, production time, layout time, cleanup time accounted for somewhere in the bid? The reason that we’re over hours, or over budget is because we were  under-prepared when we priced the job.  When your projects are not running on budget,you need to look at two questions to discover why… Did your bid cover all of the work required to fulfill the contract? In any case, you need to find the most common sources of project overruns and remedy them before you start bidding your next project.  sound familiar? MORE >>

Finding a single tenant to occupy all that space in today’s economy can be challenging, so the smarter and more feasible move is to hire a retail construction contractor that can provide you with the various pre-bid commercial construction budgets needed for subdividing that big box into a multi-tenant space. We frequently get asked the question, “How many tenants do we need before a general contractor can give us commercial construction budgets for a shopping center construction job?” What was once an Ethan Allen store in Wheaton…. The answer is none. Bill Di Santo. MORE >>