My recent posting about rigging the matrix for bidding and RFP proposals has resulted in some significant response.  and the hard and fast “low price wins the work&# approach in most conventional public sector (and sub trade) fixed price bid tenders? I can think of few nightmares in hell greater than someone choosing the (legal) low bidder, then facing a barrage of change order requests as the contractor pores over every possible failing in the drawings or even the most minor unplanned change request to earn back the under-bid.  Tweet. Does this happen?  MORE >>

The NICEIC’s Jobs for the Girls campaign is gathering supporters as they hit Westminster in a bid to get more women into the construction industry. Earlier this year Train4TradeSkills News spoke to trainee electrician and student blogger Amanda about the Jobs for the Girls campaign. What do you think – will the Jobs for the Girls campaign be a success? Train4TradeSkills News told you about the NICEIC campaign back in January and now the scheme is gaining some supporters. Onwurah is the MP for Newcastle Central and a former electrical engineer. MORE >>

Dec 14 Cleaning Up After a Low Bid Contractor Tweet I got a note from a good friend the other day, he wanted me to review a request he had received from a potential client. This potential client had a house built using the “lowest bid&# contractor. So, this potential client is looking for bids on what needs to be done to fix the problems. He supplied my friend a 6-page scope of repairs plus a drawing of the job, and he’s asking for a free bid. He said, in part: I wanted to get 2 bids on my project. Using Gross Margin to Price Jobs? MORE >>

More Construction…Still No Jobs We have partnered with eLocal.com, a lead-generating site for plumbing, roofing, and electrical contractors. Home » Uncategorized Hard Bidding is for the Birds – IPD Could Be the Way to Go Written By: John Poole on January 28, 2010 458 Comments In the economic climate that we find ourselves at the moment, it seems that the only projects out there are public jobs where bids are solicited and any warm-blooded creature with a pulse and a remote ability to read plans can submit a price on the job.  MORE >>

The specifier, who now works with a major multi-national AEC business, said: “I saw how the people there worked on the competition matrices to make sure that the organization they really wanted to win the work, would get the job,&# he said. Of course, this means the others who entered the competition through the formal public bidding process were wasting their time and money in even trying to win the race.  Yet they could never prove anything irregular as the guidelines and criteria for the successful job were set out from the start. Tweet. Fair enough. While the U.S. MORE >>