1st September 2004, 03:27 PM
Single figure bids are very common and charging for the WSI is standard practice in some areas. I are not suggesting these are good/bad practices just what is actually done.
The tricky bit is the bid on a tender competition and winning. This is not neccessarily being the cheapest (it usually is on one job I won the contract when we were three times the price of the lowest bid and it was a big contract.) This is a big overhead if you are not winning a high proportion of the bids.
I can never decide if it is better to ask a small number of people to bid or ask everybody who is able to do the job.
Peter
Peter
The tricky bit is the bid on a tender competition and winning. This is not neccessarily being the cheapest (it usually is on one job I won the contract when we were three times the price of the lowest bid and it was a big contract.) This is a big overhead if you are not winning a high proportion of the bids.
I can never decide if it is better to ask a small number of people to bid or ask everybody who is able to do the job.
Peter
Peter