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Low Bid; Best Bid: Historically facility managers have had their hands tied with acquisition regulations that required the award of projects to the lowest bidding contractor. This has typically been the case with publicly funded projects. He is also affiliated with The Wool-Zee Company, Inc.,
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Some of this difference can be explained but too often the difference is due to an incomplete understanding of the whole scope required to build the project. All contractors have faced this at one time or another where they were low bid on a project and learn as the job unfolds why they were low bid.
In the long run it is easier to put the time in up front to establish a correct budget then it is to deal with the project in a crisis mode as the job unfolds. The first crisis will occur when the contractor bids are greater than the budget estimate. Good luck on either account. Woolsey, MBA. Email This BlogThis!
Knowing where the key project metrics such as time , costs, resources , and cash flow are relative to a datum (the project plan). Good projectmanagers will always know where these project metrics are because they are indicative of the immediate health of the project. construction consultants.
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This week the blog topic is on “Negotiating” unit price line items taken from national estimating guides on competitively bid contracts that are publically funded and subject to audits. Kaiser Constructors and has worked on projects ranging from heavy, military, industrial, commercial and residential. You read it right.
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